Ngan, Olivia Miu Yung and Sim, Joong Hiong (2021) Evolution of bioethics education in the medical programme: a tale of two medical schools. International Journal of Ethics Education, 6 (1). pp. 37-50. ISSN 2363-9997, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-020-00112-0.
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Bioethics Education in the Anglo-European context developed since 1970 and was incorporated into the undergraduate and postgraduate education, residency training, and continuous education. In the Asia-Pacific region, bioethics education is less structured and often dependent on contextual constraints. This paper provides a cross-sectional analysis, describing institutional experiences in developing bioethics curriculum at two medical schools in Malaysia and Hong Kong. The medical programmes of the two institutions are distinctive in terms curriculum framework, teaching approach, and topic selection, and common challenges include implementation of bioethics courses, students' resistance to bioethics, and limited teaching capacity, emerged as they evolve. The reported experiences revealed that there is room for improvement regarding how medical schools integrate bioethics education in regions where curriculum development remains at an early stage. At least, a bioethics education requires both top-down support from the faculty to improve teaching and educational quality, as well as from the bottom-up approach to empower students to raise awareness and concerns toward bioethics, and helps students developing reasoning through challenging issues.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bioethics; Medical education; Medical school; Curriculum development; Faculty development; Malaysia; Hong Kong |
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2361 Curriculum |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Medicine Department |
| Depositing User: | Ms Zaharah Ramly |
| Date Deposited: | 23 May 2022 08:33 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2022 08:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/34948 |
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