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- Title
Antecedents and Consequences of Medical Students' Moral Decision Making during Professionalism Dilemmas.
- Authors
Monrouxe, Lynn; Shaw, Malissa; Rees, Charlotte
- Abstract
Medical students often experience professionalism dilemmas (which differ from ethical dilemmas) wherein students sometimes witness and/or participate in patient safety, dignity, and consent lapses. When faced with such dilemmas, students make moral decisions. If students' action (or inaction) runs counter to their perceived moral values--often due to organizational constraints or power hierarchies--they can suffer moral distress, burnout, or a desire to leave the profession. If moral transgressions are rationalized as being for the greater good, moral distress can decrease as dilemmas are experienced more frequently (habituation); if no learner benefit is seen, distress can increase with greater exposure to dilemmas (disturbance). We suggest how medical educators can support students' understandings of ethical dilemmas and facilitate their habits of enacting professionalism: by modeling appropriate resistance behaviors.
- Subjects
ETHICS; MEDICAL ethics; MEDICAL students; DECISION making in clinical medicine; PROFESSIONALISM
- Publication
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2017, Vol 19, Issue 6, p568
- ISSN
2376-6980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.medu1-1706