The development of a brief and objective method for evaluating moral sensitivity and reasoning in medical students

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-7

  Akabayashi, Akira ^a,b   Slingsby, Brian T ^b   Kai, Ichiro ^a   Nishimura, Tadashi ^a   Yamagishi, Akiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUTHANASIA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; REVIEW;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICIANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 2942555364     PISSN: 14726939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-5-1     Document Type: Review

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