Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

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Today, due to the highlighted the importance of respect for the human dignity, and increasing awareness of patients, traditional methods of ethics training cannot meet the educational needs. In this cross-sectional study, the effect of medical ethics workshops on knowledge and attitudes of 40 fourth years medical students was studied. A pre-post questionnaire on the measurement of the importance of the medical ethics components, the self-assessment of ethical knowledge, behavior and professional ethics was presented. There was a significant difference between the mean score of the importance of the medical ethics components (questionnaire number 1) before and after the workshop (p = 0.002); but in the case of self-assessment of moral behavior (P = 0.64) and self-assessment of professional ethics compliance (p = 0.48), there was no significant difference between the mean score of students before and after the workshop. The analysis of log-books indicated that students understand, topics of confidentiality, informed consent, and breaking bad news; but issues such as empathy, respect for the patient's emotional state, interaction with a patient suffering from AIDS, informing the patient about the disease and the course of the treatment, accepting a mistake from the doctor, and apologizing to the patient were inadequately addressed by the students.  Ethics training is not sufficient just at the beginning of the clinical course; it must also be trained actively in the hospital and on the patient's bedside.

Keywords: Professional Ethics, Self-Assessment, Ethical Behavior, Medical Ethics' Workshop

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