DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-772-9-0178

ENGAGING MEDICAL AND BIOMEDICAL STUDENTS TOWARDS ETHICS AND ETHICAL CONDUCT VIA CASE STUDY BASED APPROACH: REFLECTIONS FROM AN ONLINE WORKSHOP

Shiva Das Sivasubramaniam¹, Zeenath Reza Khan²

¹ University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

² University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ethics and ethical behaviour form an important part in clinical science and biomed- ical research. Ethical education should be comprehensively taught aiming to help gradu- ate/undergraduate students to practice by applying underlying principles. Several innovative types of learning strategies are being employed to deliver these sessions. One such method is the “case study based delivery” in which students are presented with a variety of case studies highlighting the issues to create an interactive learning. In this investigation authors wanted to showcase this approach to the Middle-Eastern medical/biomedical students and thereby (a) validate the effectiveness of this case study based delivery and (b) to explore the effectiveness of delivering case study based ethical education in a virtually online environment. In this manuscript, we share our experiences from this session by a narrative commentary of our observation and analysis on student interactions The study shows that the opportunities for integrated learning and problem solving abilities can be the best solution for learning to apply the appropriate ethical principle in clinical context. Conducting an online interactive session with a large scale of attendees (around 258 participants) can be a challenge which can be tackled by excellent IT support.

Klíčová slova: Bioethics, Medical ethics, Case Study Approach, Education, Medical Research

stránky: 178-185