Virtue and care ethics & humanism in medical education: a scoping review

BMC Medical Education

Nathan Stout¹  David J. Doukas¹  Martina Darragh²  David T. Ozar³  Janet M. de Groot⁴  Brian S. Carter⁵ 

[1] Department of Family and Community Medicine, James A. Knight Chair of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine, Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave, #8033, New Orleans, LA, USA;Georgetown University, Washington, USA;Loyola University, Chicago, USA;University of Calgary, Calgary, CA, Canada;University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, USA;

关键词: Virtue ethics;    Care ethics;    Humanism;    Medical education;    Medical ethics;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-021-03051-6

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

PurposeThis scoping review explores how virtue and care ethics are incorporated into health professions education and how these factors may relate to the development of humanistic patient care.MethodOur team identified citations in the literature emphasizing virtue ethics and care ethics (in PubMed, NLM Catalog, WorldCat, EthicsShare, EthxWeb, Globethics.net, Philosopher’s Index, and ProQuest Central) lending themselves to constructs of humanism curricula. Our exclusion criteria consisted of non-English articles, those not addressing virtue and care ethics and humanism in medical pedagogy, and those not addressing aspects of character in health ethics. We examined in a stepwise fashion whether citations: 1) Contained definitions of virtue and care ethics; 2) Implemented virtue and care ethics in health care curricula; and 3) Evidenced patient-directed caregiver humanism.ResultsEight hundred eleven citations were identified, 88 intensively reviewed, and the final 25 analyzed in-depth. We identified multiple key themes with relevant metaphors associated with virtue/care ethics, curricula, and humanism education.ConclusionsThis research sought to better understand how virtue and care ethics can potentially promote humanism and identified themes that facilitate and impede this mission.

【 授权许可】

CC BY