BACKGROUND Interest in short-term global health training and service programs continues to grow, yet they can be associated with a variety of ethical issues for which trainees or others with limited global health experience may not be prepared to address. Therefore, there is a clear need for educational interventions concerning these ethical issues. METHODS We developed and evaluated an intro...

the development and implementation of non-animal alternative tools in education and training are often the result of an evaluation process where the replacement of harmful animal use with humane, innovative methods reflects a range of pedagogical, ethical, environmental and economic considerations. InterNICHe helps realise its vision of a fully humane education by developing, promoting and impl...

― ― S8 ― From September 2013 at Tohoku University Hospital, Advanced Medical Training Center was opened. In this center, surgery training in general anesthesia pig has been held about 30 times in the past and many residents have attended the training of gastroenterological surgery. 1 training overview: The contents of our surgical training, intended for 3-6 people of residents using two pigs in...

Public trust demands that individuals who do research, testing, or teaching with animals use humane, ethical, and scientifically sound methods. Furthermore, the Animal Welfare Act and the Public Health Service Policy require research institutions to provide basic training and to ensure that anyone who cares for and/or works with laboratory animals has the appropriate training or experience rele...

During medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. However, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. Medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians' practice and ethical decisions; thus,...

OBJECTIVE To explore and characterize the ethical and safety challenges of global health experiences as they affect medical students in order to better prepare trainees to face them. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 Canadian medical trainees who had participated in global health experiences during medical school. Convenience and snowball sampling were utilized. Using ...

children are as divine deposits for their parents. they pass a part of their times with their teachers and tutors. therefore; all of us should try to train and educate our children desirably so that they can play an important role in building and construction of their society. this is the same important parents’ and trainers’ duties. they should apply a suitable situation for gaining of supreme...

dear editor clinical environments encounter is an important part of studying medicine (1). patient contact as an integral part of medical education occurs in various formats in the clinical settings (2, 3). during clinical training, medical students may experience high levels of stress, and some may not deal with it well. the abruptness of students’ transition to the clinical setting generated ...

About the author: Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos is a Professor at the Department of Information Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Uppsala University, Sweden. He got his PhD in Psychology and he is also Docent in Psychology. His main research interests are in the areas of Ethical Competence, Ethical Training and Assessment, Information Technology Ethics, Ethical Usability and Ethical Autonomou...

To generate empathy in the care of vulnerable older persons requires care providers to reflect critically on their care practices. Ethics education and training must provide them with tools to accomplish such critical reflection. It must also create a pedagogical context in which good care can be taught and cultivated. The care-ethics lab 'sTimul' originated in 2008 in Flanders with the stimula...