Attitude of students and teachers of the Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, to medical ethics

Introduction. Ethics deals with moral, and therefore is used to describe people’s actions exercised in full freedom as good or bad, that is to say linked to what should or should not be done. Objective. To determine attitude to medical ethics of undergraduate students and teachers of San Marcos Depa...

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Autores: Izaguirre Sotomayor, Manuel Hernán, Reátegui Guzmán, Luis Américo, Mori Ramírez, Hallder, Robles Rodríguez, Fabricio Junior, Sánchez Vilcapuma, Walter Junior
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/11405
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/11405
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ethics
Professional.
Ética
Ética profesional.
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Sumario:Introduction. Ethics deals with moral, and therefore is used to describe people’s actions exercised in full freedom as good or bad, that is to say linked to what should or should not be done. Objective. To determine attitude to medical ethics of undergraduate students and teachers of San Marcos Department of Pediatrics. Design. Non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational descriptive quantitative study. Setting. Department of Pediatrics, San Fernando School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima. Peru. Participants. Students and teachers of the Pediatrics Department. Interventions. The instrument applied was a Likert type attitude scale constructed by the authors. Main outcome measures. Attitude to medical ethics. Results. Teachers’ attitude towards ethics was more favorable (82%) than that of the students (48%). However, only 36% of teachers and 9% of students had a very favorable attitude. Conclusions. Teachers of the Department of Pediatrics had a more favorable attitude to ethics than the students’ and more satisfaction towards deontology than the students. Teachers and students had an unfavorable and very unfavorable attitude towards the construct “society is not completely moral”, respectively.