Changes in the components of moral reasoning during students' medical education: A pilot study

Medical Education

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 822-829

  Patenaude, Johane ^a,b   Niyonsenga, T ^b   Fafard, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

*Moral development; Education medical undergraduate *standards; Medical psychology; Multivariante analysis; Quebec epidemiology; Questionnaires; Student

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; MORALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0041832116     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2003.01593.x     Document Type: Article

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