Schiff Tamar, Hedlin Margot, Al-Mondhiry Jafar
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 2025 Jul;34(3):393-404. doi: 10.1017/S0963180124000471.
Medical ethics education is crucial for medical students and trainees, helping to shape attitudes, beliefs, values, and professional identities. Exploration of ethical dilemmas and approaches to resolving them provides a broader understanding of the social and cultural contexts in which medicine is practiced, as well as the ethical implications of medical decisions, fostering critical thinking and self-reflection skills imperative to providing patient-centered care. However, exposure to medical ethics topics and their clinical applications can be limited by curricular constraints and the availability of institutional resources and expertise. Podcasts, among other Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) resources, are a novel educational tool that offers particular advantages for self-directed learning, a process by which learners engage in asynchronous educational opportunities outside of traditional academic or clinical settings. Podcasts can be readily distributed to wide audiences and played at any time, reducing barriers to access and offering a level of flexibility that is not possible with traditional forms of education and is well-suited to busy schedules. Podcasts can also use real voices and storytelling to make the content memorable and eminently human. This paper describes the development, production process, and impact of Core IM's "At the Bedside," a podcast focusing on issues in medical ethics and the medical humanities, intending to supplement standard bioethics curricula in an accessible, relevant, and engaging way. The authors advocate for broad incorporation of podcasts into medical ethics education.
医学伦理教育对医学生和实习生至关重要，有助于塑造他们的态度、信念、价值观和职业身份。探讨伦理困境及其解决方法能让人们更广泛地了解医学实践所处的社会和文化背景，以及医疗决策的伦理影响，培养批判性思维和自我反思能力，这些能力对于提供以患者为中心的护理至关重要。然而，由于课程限制以及机构资源和专业知识的可获取性，医学生接触医学伦理主题及其临床应用的机会可能有限。播客与其他免费开放获取医学教育（FOAMed）资源一样，是一种新颖的教育工具，为自主学习提供了特别的优势，自主学习是学习者在传统学术或临床环境之外参与异步教育机会的过程。播客可以轻松地分发给广大受众并随时播放，减少了获取障碍，提供了传统教育形式所没有的灵活性，非常适合繁忙的日程安排。播客还可以使用真实的声音和讲故事的方式，使内容令人难忘且极具人文色彩。本文描述了Core IM的《床边故事》播客的开发、制作过程及其影响，该播客聚焦医学伦理和医学人文学科问题，旨在以一种易懂、相关且引人入胜的方式补充标准生物伦理课程。作者主张将播客广泛纳入医学伦理教育。
