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Ethics code: IR.ZAUMS.REC.1400.414
Galavi M, Keykha M, Mirlotfi P R, Ziaei M. Importance of Ethics in Education and the Degree of Compliance With Ethical Principles in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences From the Perspective of internship Students. DSME 2023; 10 (3) :280-291
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http://dsme.hums.ac.ir/article-1-453-en.html
Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.
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Background Since medical professionalism is based on ethics, the observance of ethical principles in its education plays a significant role in forming professional and moral values in medical students. This study aims to determine the importance of ethics in education and the degree of compliance with ethical principles in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences (ZUMS) from the perspective of internship students.
Methods In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 97 internship students of ZUMS in 2022 participated. The data collection tools were a demographic form and a standardized questionnaire developed by Farahbakhsh et al., for measuring the importance of and degree of compliance with ethical principles. Data analysis was done in SPSS v.21 software using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results Overall, the importance of ethics in medical education was 88.22%, and the overall level of compliance with ethics in medical education was 68.58%. The results of the Mann-Whitney U test showed no significant difference in the overall importance of ethics and overall compliance with ethics in terms of age, gender, place of residence, work experience, and the history of participating in ethics workshops.
Conclusion Ethics in medical education is very important from the perspective of ZUMS students. The causes and factors affecting this perception regarding the observance of ethical standards in education should be identified to help the effectiveness of education and strengthen moral values in medical education.
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Special Received: 2023/05/18 | Accepted: 2023/09/27 | Published: 2024/09/30