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Bioethics Education in the Medical Programme among Malaysian Medical Schools: Where Are We Now?
INTRODUCTION: A global trend in medical education is the inclusion of bioethics teaching in medical programme. The objective of this article is to describe the current state of bioethics education in the medical programme among Malaysian medical schools. METHOD: A national survey was conducted among...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6887801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31832540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120519883887 |
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author | Sim, Joong Hiong Ngan, Olivia Miu Yung Ng, Ho Keung |
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description | INTRODUCTION: A global trend in medical education is the inclusion of bioethics teaching in medical programme. The objective of this article is to describe the current state of bioethics education in the medical programme among Malaysian medical schools. METHOD: A national survey was conducted among Malaysian medical schools between January and March 2019. One representative from each medical school was invited to respond to the survey. Respondents were faculty members involved in teaching and assessment of bioethics in their medical schools, or/and in developing and coordinating bioethics curriculum. Descriptive statistics were reported. FINDINGS: Out of 30 medical schools, 11 completed and returned the survey (overall response rate = 36.7%). Of these 11 schools, 6/10 (60%) were from public institutions while 5/20 (25%) were from private institutions. All except 1 school implemented a formal bioethics curriculum. A wide range of bioethics topics are currently taught in the medical programme. The majority involved in teaching bioethics were health care professionals (mainly clinicians), followed by lawyers. Lecture and attendance, respectively, are the most common teaching and assessment method. Major barriers to the implementation of bioethics education included limited qualified teaching staff (6/11 = 54.5%), no established curriculum to follow (5/11 = 45.5%), limited financial resources to hire qualified staff (4/11 = 36.4%), and no consensus among faculty members (4/11 = 36.4%). CONCLUSION: Bioethics education in Malaysia is relatively new and mostly limited by a shortage of scholars in bioethics. National support and institutional collaboration in providing bioethics training is the key to enhance the quality of bioethics education. |
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spelling | pubmed-68878012019-12-12 Bioethics Education in the Medical Programme among Malaysian Medical Schools: Where Are We Now? Sim, Joong Hiong Ngan, Olivia Miu Yung Ng, Ho Keung J Med Educ Curric Dev Original Research INTRODUCTION: A global trend in medical education is the inclusion of bioethics teaching in medical programme. The objective of this article is to describe the current state of bioethics education in the medical programme among Malaysian medical schools. METHOD: A national survey was conducted among Malaysian medical schools between January and March 2019. One representative from each medical school was invited to respond to the survey. Respondents were faculty members involved in teaching and assessment of bioethics in their medical schools, or/and in developing and coordinating bioethics curriculum. Descriptive statistics were reported. FINDINGS: Out of 30 medical schools, 11 completed and returned the survey (overall response rate = 36.7%). Of these 11 schools, 6/10 (60%) were from public institutions while 5/20 (25%) were from private institutions. All except 1 school implemented a formal bioethics curriculum. A wide range of bioethics topics are currently taught in the medical programme. The majority involved in teaching bioethics were health care professionals (mainly clinicians), followed by lawyers. Lecture and attendance, respectively, are the most common teaching and assessment method. Major barriers to the implementation of bioethics education included limited qualified teaching staff (6/11 = 54.5%), no established curriculum to follow (5/11 = 45.5%), limited financial resources to hire qualified staff (4/11 = 36.4%), and no consensus among faculty members (4/11 = 36.4%). CONCLUSION: Bioethics education in Malaysia is relatively new and mostly limited by a shortage of scholars in bioethics. National support and institutional collaboration in providing bioethics training is the key to enhance the quality of bioethics education. SAGE Publications 2019-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6887801/ /pubmed/31832540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120519883887 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Sim, Joong Hiong Ngan, Olivia Miu Yung Ng, Ho Keung Bioethics Education in the Medical Programme among Malaysian Medical Schools: Where Are We Now? |
title | Bioethics Education in the Medical Programme among Malaysian Medical Schools: Where Are We Now? |
title_full | Bioethics Education in the Medical Programme among Malaysian Medical Schools: Where Are We Now? |
title_fullStr | Bioethics Education in the Medical Programme among Malaysian Medical Schools: Where Are We Now? |
title_full_unstemmed | Bioethics Education in the Medical Programme among Malaysian Medical Schools: Where Are We Now? |
title_short | Bioethics Education in the Medical Programme among Malaysian Medical Schools: Where Are We Now? |
title_sort | bioethics education in the medical programme among malaysian medical schools: where are we now? |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6887801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31832540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120519883887 |
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