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Bioethics in medical education: what to teach?

Taratukhin EO
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Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education Russian National Research Medical University named after N. I. Pirogov of the Ministry of Health of Russia

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Received: 2023-03-28 Accepted: 2023-04-04 Published online: 2023-06-28
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The difficulty of teaching doctors a bioethical block of disciplines (ethical and legal, related to communication, patient-centeredness) lies in the ambiguity of the ethical categories themselves, which differ both historically and culturally. The deontological imperative, which could become a universal measure of the ethical, has similar limitations and, even if it successfully fulfills a normative function, can lead to moral suffering if its implementation is impossible. Other versions of metaethics also have limitations. Additional complexity is created by the starting point for designating a norm in bioethics - the definition of health, which has a biopsychosocial nature. All together, this turns out to be a serious challenge for teaching the bioethical block of disciplines. A possible solution is virtue, the formation of a “virtuoso doctor” capable of coping with ethical relativism - that inevitability that is always present in interpersonal relationships.

Keywords: deontology, professional burnout, patient-clinician relationships, medical law, communication, virtue, pedagogics, clinicians’ tuition

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