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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
The Teaching Of Bioethics In The Undergraduate Medical Course At The State University Of Londrina (uel)-brazil
J. E. SIQUEIRA,a M.H. SAKAI, a Jr. L. CORDONI, a R. EISELLEa
aDepartment of Medicine-Health Sciences Center, State University of Londrina, BRAZIL
Objective: This paper aims at evaluating the teaching of Ethics and Bioethics in the undergraduate medical course at the State University of Londrina (UEL)-Brazil from 1968 to 2001, as well as discussing how and when to teach Bioethics. There are three phases of teaching this discipline at UEL.
Material and Methods: This study evaluated Phases I and II and used different methods for each phase, as follows: questionnaire and test.
Results: The results are that the teaching in Phase I was focused on Forensic Medicine and was inadequate for the practice of Medicine. In Phase II, the content is more appropriate and the marks of the test were higher than the Brazilian mean. Therefore, the establishment of a follow-up procedure of the former students of Phases I, II and III for the evaluation process is required in order to obtain an overview of the whole course.
Conclusion: As a conclusion, we emphasise the importance of teaching Ethics and Bioethics using an interdisciplinary approach, based on real health problems towards a humanistic approach in medicine. In this way, the need to change the whole curriculum and implement a teaching learning methodology centred on the students is essential and PBL seems to be the most appropriate methodology.Keywords: Teaching bioethics, methodology, BrazilTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2004, 12:230-233
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