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Ethics education among obstetrics and gynecologists in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study

There are a lot of efforts to promote ethics education and training at an undergraduate and postgraduate level around the world, including in Saudi Arabia. However, there is still a lack of structured ethics education curricula in obstetrics and gynecology residency programs in Saudi Arabia. In the...

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Autores principales: Althagafi, Noha Abed, Alahmad, Ghiath
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10655446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37974171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04824-x
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description There are a lot of efforts to promote ethics education and training at an undergraduate and postgraduate level around the world, including in Saudi Arabia. However, there is still a lack of structured ethics education curricula in obstetrics and gynecology residency programs in Saudi Arabia. In the current scenario, where new ethical dilemmas are emerging, an ethics education that only focuses on teaching the ethical principles does not enhance the competence to deal with the ethical challenges in daily practice. This study evaluates the lack of ethics education and training in obstetrics and gynecology residency programs in Saudi Arabia. A cross-sectional survey of working obstetricians and gynecologists in Saudi Arabia was conducted among all working levels of doctors (the residents, registrars, consultants, and program directors) from various hospitals of Saudi Arabia. 391 practitioners responded to the survey, representing a response rate of 39.1%, including 257 (66.4%) females and 130 (33.6%) males. 74 (23.0%) received formal education (medical school = 35%; residency programs = 11.8%; sub-specialty programs = 4.3%; postgraduate programs = 7.4%), 85 (26.4%) received informal education (online training = 12.8%; conferences = 18.9%; courses and workshops = 13.3%; self-learning = 31.7% and daily practices = 20.7%), and 78 (19.95%) received no ethics education. Almost all the respondents had a positive attitude towards ethical principles, but a least percent were competent to deal with the ethical challenges. The bottom line of this survey is the imperativeness of reinforcement of formal ethics education in obstetrics and gynecology postgraduate programs in Saudi Arabia. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04824-x.
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spelling pubmed-106554462023-11-16 Ethics education among obstetrics and gynecologists in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study Althagafi, Noha Abed Alahmad, Ghiath BMC Med Educ Research There are a lot of efforts to promote ethics education and training at an undergraduate and postgraduate level around the world, including in Saudi Arabia. However, there is still a lack of structured ethics education curricula in obstetrics and gynecology residency programs in Saudi Arabia. In the current scenario, where new ethical dilemmas are emerging, an ethics education that only focuses on teaching the ethical principles does not enhance the competence to deal with the ethical challenges in daily practice. This study evaluates the lack of ethics education and training in obstetrics and gynecology residency programs in Saudi Arabia. A cross-sectional survey of working obstetricians and gynecologists in Saudi Arabia was conducted among all working levels of doctors (the residents, registrars, consultants, and program directors) from various hospitals of Saudi Arabia. 391 practitioners responded to the survey, representing a response rate of 39.1%, including 257 (66.4%) females and 130 (33.6%) males. 74 (23.0%) received formal education (medical school = 35%; residency programs = 11.8%; sub-specialty programs = 4.3%; postgraduate programs = 7.4%), 85 (26.4%) received informal education (online training = 12.8%; conferences = 18.9%; courses and workshops = 13.3%; self-learning = 31.7% and daily practices = 20.7%), and 78 (19.95%) received no ethics education. Almost all the respondents had a positive attitude towards ethical principles, but a least percent were competent to deal with the ethical challenges. The bottom line of this survey is the imperativeness of reinforcement of formal ethics education in obstetrics and gynecology postgraduate programs in Saudi Arabia. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04824-x. BioMed Central 2023-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10655446/ /pubmed/37974171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04824-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ethics education among obstetrics and gynecologists in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10655446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37974171
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