Education and moral respect for the medical student. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martin, Christopher
• Is Part Of: Ethics and education. Volume 11:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 91
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Medical education -- ethics education -- educational criteria -- liberal education -- Abraham Flexner -- R.S Peters -- moral respect; Education -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Education -- Aims and objectives -- Periodicals; Education -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Moral education -- Periodicals; 370.1
• DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2016.1145494
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-9642

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper I argue that medical education must remain attuned to the interests that physicians have in their own self-development despite ongoing calls for ethics education aimed at ensuring physicians maintain focus on the interests of the patient and society. In particular, I argue that medical education should advance (and abide by) criteria defining what counts as an educationally worthwhile activity from the perspective of the medical student understood as a learner. I offer a preliminary account and justification of such criteria, arguing that such criteria warrant a process of ethical formation that better serves the interests of medical students, their patients and society.