Medical Students' Attitudes Towards Death and Related lssues
Keywords:
Ethics, Medical, Education, Attitudes to Death, Students, Medical.
Abstract
A two-part study was done to assess medical students' attitudes to ethical issues related, to death, fear of death, and religious beliefs. Part I assessed differences between medical and other students, and Part 2 examined changes in attitudes during medical school. It was found, that medical students start out with a number of differences in their ethical attitudes, and with greater conscious fear of death, and that these attitudes and feelings remain essentially unchanged despite exposure to medical education. It is thus suggested, that attention needs to be given both to the selection of students and to the input they receive in terms of ethical issues and, death.
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