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Use of the Hippocratic or other professional oaths in UK medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism
OBJECTIVE: This paper concerns the continued use of the Hippocratic Oath in United Kingdom (UK) medical schools. A survey of all UK medical schools looked at which schools use the Oath, which variants they use, and what they perceive to be the benefits of using the Oath. 27 schools participated in t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5747024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3114-7 |
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description | OBJECTIVE: This paper concerns the continued use of the Hippocratic Oath in United Kingdom (UK) medical schools. A survey of all UK medical schools looked at which schools use the Oath, which variants they use, and what they perceive to be the benefits of using the Oath. 27 schools participated in the study. RESULTS: Although some authors have deemed the Oath as out of date for the purposes of modern medicine [1], new variants of the Oath have been embraced and 19/27 (70%) of schools use an Oath, with some Universities asking student doctors to acknowledge this Oath on entry to and graduation from medical school. There is a renewed interest in use of the Oath, with use in some Schools on admission and graduation. Reasons for adopting the Oath include a desire to enhance good practice and to prevent unwanted behaviour. Variants of the Oath used were analysed according to which bioethical principles are contained within them and some do not accord with all principles. A new variant of the Oath is proposed which encompasses all four bioethical principles. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-017-3114-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-57470242018-01-03 Use of the Hippocratic or other professional oaths in UK medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism Green, Ben BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: This paper concerns the continued use of the Hippocratic Oath in United Kingdom (UK) medical schools. A survey of all UK medical schools looked at which schools use the Oath, which variants they use, and what they perceive to be the benefits of using the Oath. 27 schools participated in the study. RESULTS: Although some authors have deemed the Oath as out of date for the purposes of modern medicine [1], new variants of the Oath have been embraced and 19/27 (70%) of schools use an Oath, with some Universities asking student doctors to acknowledge this Oath on entry to and graduation from medical school. There is a renewed interest in use of the Oath, with use in some Schools on admission and graduation. Reasons for adopting the Oath include a desire to enhance good practice and to prevent unwanted behaviour. Variants of the Oath used were analysed according to which bioethical principles are contained within them and some do not accord with all principles. A new variant of the Oath is proposed which encompasses all four bioethical principles. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-017-3114-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5747024/ /pubmed/29284529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3114-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Green, Ben Use of the Hippocratic or other professional oaths in UK medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism |
title | Use of the Hippocratic or other professional oaths in UK medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism |
title_full | Use of the Hippocratic or other professional oaths in UK medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism |
title_fullStr | Use of the Hippocratic or other professional oaths in UK medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism |
title_full_unstemmed | Use of the Hippocratic or other professional oaths in UK medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism |
title_short | Use of the Hippocratic or other professional oaths in UK medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism |
title_sort | use of the hippocratic or other professional oaths in uk medical schools in 2017: practice, perception of benefit and principlism |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5747024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3114-7 |
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