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Jiangli HAN; Yali CONG; Qiong BAI; Shu LI; Guangkuan XIE; Tongyan HAN; Chuan MA; Ying YAO; Fei DONG; Huilin LIU; Rui WU; Qinggang GE; Liang WANG; Yuxi XIA; Shixian GU; Xuan HE; Ning SHEN

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Development of the "Clinical Ethics" Course for the Eight-Year Clinical Medicine Program: Explorations and Practices by an Interdisciplinary Teaching Team

VernacularTitle:临床医学八年制《临床伦理》课程建设: 跨学科教学团队探索与实践
Author: Jiangli HAN ¹ ; Yali CONG ² ; Qiong BAI ³ ; Shu LI ⁴ ; Guangkuan XIE ² ; Tongyan HAN ⁵ ; Chuan MA ⁶ ; Ying YAO ⁷ ; Fei DONG ⁸ ; Huilin LIU ⁹ ; Rui WU ¹⁰ ; Qinggang GE ¹¹ ; Liang WANG ¹² ; Yuxi XIA ¹³ ; Shixian GU ¹⁴ ; Xuan HE ¹⁴ ; Ning SHEN ¹⁰
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1. Department of Cardiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
2. School of Health Humanities, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China;
3. Department of Nephrology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
4. Department of Emergency, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
5. Department of Pediatrics, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
6. Department of Dermatology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
7. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
8. Department of Hematology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
9. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
10. Department of Cardiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
11. Department of Cardiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
12. Department of Cardiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;School of Health Humanities, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China;Department of General Surgery, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
13. Department of Cardiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;Department of Nephrology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;Medical Department, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
14. Department of Cardiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;Department of Emergency, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;Department of Education, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: clinical ethics; interdisciplinary teaching; eight-year medical program; curriculum development
From: Medical Journal of Peking Union Medical College Hospital 2026;17(5):1223-1229
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract:
With the rapid advancement of medical technology and the increasing complexity of clinical environments, competence in clinical ethical decision-making has become an indispensable core competency for exemplary physicians. However, traditional medical ethics education has long been confronted with the persistent challenges of theory-practice dissociation and the disconnect between pedagogical settings and clinical realities. Thus, how to construct a "Clinical Ethics" curriculum that aligns with the objectives of training high-caliber medical professionals has emerged as a critical and challenging issue in current medical education reform. To effectively address this challenge, the Office of Education at Peking University Third Hospital, since 2021, has assembled a multidisciplinary "Clinical Ethics" teaching and management team comprising faculty from Peking University School of Humanities and key clinical specialists from the hospital. In 2022, the "Clinical Ethics" elective course was formally launched for fourth-year students in the eight-year MD program who had completed coursework in "Medical Ethics" and organ-system-based curricula, with the aim of exploring and operationalizing a pre-clinical ethics education model tailored for senior medical students. The course employs a modular instructional design encompassing "theoretical review-case-based deliberation-clinical workshop", which effectively facilitates the deep integration of medical humanities with clinical practice.Following four years of iterative refinement through the "plan-act-observe-reflect" cycle, the course has demonstrated positive outcomes in enhancing students' ethical awareness and decision-making capabilities, and has preliminarily established a sustainable collaborative mechanism among the multidisciplinary faculty team. This article systematically delineates the course development background, pedagogical model and methodological innovations, and the multidisciplinary collaborative framework, alongside reflections and summaries based on implementation outcomes, with the intent of providing references for the future development of "Clinical Ethics" curricula.