Asghari Fariba, Mirzazadeh Azim, Samadi Aniseh, Safa Aliakbar Nejati, Jafarian Ali, Farahani Ali Vasheghani, Razavi Seyed Hasan Emami
Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2011 Aug 14;4:8. Print 2011.
In this project, we aimed to revise the medical ethics curriculum at the School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, in order to promote the level of students' ethical awareness and enable them to make ethical decisions. Ideal and long term educational objectives were set to determine directions for future reforms and to provide a baseline for future evaluation of the project. However, based on limited available recourses, the first stage of the reform was planned and implemented with a 3 years scope. In revising the curriculum, which was done according to the Harden's ten questions, we focused on moral attitude and ethical reasoning skill in addition to academic knowledge base by using methods such as case discussions, portfolio, and clinical ethics rounds. The revised curriculum was implemented during the first semester of the 2006-2007 academic year for the first time. The student feedback indicated that the new curriculum was successful in increasing the students' awareness of ethical issues and enabled them to understand and accept their professional obligations. Revising the curriculum and its evaluation should be considered as an ongoing process. The present project was a successful experience that motivated faculty members to pursue the next steps of improving the curriculum on medical ethics and proved to be convincing for the authorities and policy makers to support it.
在本项目中，我们旨在修订德黑兰医科大学医学院的医学伦理学课程，以提高学生的道德意识水平，并使他们能够做出符合伦理的决策。设定了理想的长期教育目标，以确定未来改革的方向，并为该项目未来的评估提供基线。然而，基于有限的可用资源，改革的第一阶段计划并实施为期3年。在根据哈登的十个问题修订课程时，除了学术知识基础外，我们还通过案例讨论、学习档案袋和临床伦理查房等方法，关注道德态度和伦理推理技能。修订后的课程于2006 - 2007学年第一学期首次实施。学生反馈表明，新课程成功提高了学生对伦理问题的认识，并使他们能够理解和接受自己的职业义务。修订课程及其评估应被视为一个持续的过程。本项目是一次成功的经验，激励教师们推进医学伦理学课程改进的后续步骤，并被证明能使当局和政策制定者信服并支持该项目。
