Attitude of students and teachers of the Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, to medical ethics

Authors

  • Manuel Hernán Izaguirre Sotomayor Profesor Principal, Departamento de Pediatría, Profesor Asociado, Departamento de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina San Fernando, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Luis Américo Reátegui Guzmán Profesor Principal, Departamento de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina San Fernando, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Hallder Mori Ramírez Profesor Principal, Departamento de Pediatría, Profesor Asociado, Departamento de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina San Fernando, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Fabricio Junior Robles Rodríguez Estudiante, Facultad de Medicina San Fernando, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Walter Junior Sánchez Vilcapuma Estudiante, Facultad de Medicina San Fernando, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v76i4.11405

Keywords:

Ethics, Professional.

Abstract

Introduction. Ethics deals with moral, and therefore is used to describe people’s actions exercised in full freedom as good or bad, that is to say linked to what should or should not be done. Objective. To determine attitude to medical ethics of undergraduate students and teachers of San Marcos Department of Pediatrics. Design. Non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational descriptive quantitative study. Setting. Department of Pediatrics, San Fernando School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima. Peru. Participants. Students and teachers of the Pediatrics Department. Interventions. The instrument applied was a Likert type attitude scale constructed by the authors. Main outcome measures. Attitude to medical ethics. Results. Teachers’ attitude towards ethics was more favorable (82%) than that of the students (48%). However, only 36% of teachers and 9% of students had a very favorable attitude. Conclusions. Teachers of the Department of Pediatrics had a more favorable attitude to ethics than the students’ and more satisfaction towards deontology than the students. Teachers and students had an unfavorable and very unfavorable attitude towards the construct “society is not completely moral”, respectively.

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Published

2015-12-31

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Vol. 76 No. 4 (2015)

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Artículo Original

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Izaguirre Sotomayor MH, Reátegui Guzmán LA, Mori Ramírez H, Robles Rodríguez FJ, Sánchez Vilcapuma WJ. Attitude of students and teachers of the Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, to medical ethics. An Fac med [Internet]. 2015 Dec. 31 [cited 2024 Jul. 17];76(4):361-8. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/11405