Use of a Case Study in Medicoethical Education for Nursing Students and Nonmedical Students.
- VernacularTitle:医療倫理教育におけるケーススタディの役割 看護学生と一般学生を対象とした倫理演習
- Author:
Kiyoshi MURAOKA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
medical ethics;
education;
case study;
nursing student;
nonmedical university student
- From:Medical Education
2001;32(2):83-86
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
An effective method is urgently needed for teaching applied medical ethics to both medical and nonmedical students in Japan. Education has become necessary because recent medical advances, such as organ transplantation from brain-dead donors, has complicated medicoethical decision making for patients, their families, physicians, and other medical staff. In 1998 and 1999, I introduced an ethical training program for nursing students and nonmedical university students using a case study from H. Brody's book Ethical Decisions in Medicine, which I had helped revise. I discussed the case of a 10-year-old brain-dead boy. Teaching with the case study demonstrated that both nursing students and nonmedical students often interpreted ambivalently the meaning and treatment of brain death as used in this case study. When asked to play the role of the physician, most students, while assenting to the definition of brain death as a human death, chose not to decide whether to stop artificial respiration but instead felt that the boy's parents had the right to decide.
