Students' responses to scenarios depicting ethical dilemmas: a study of pharmacy and medical students in New Zealand

One of the key learning objectives in any health professional course is to develop ethical and judicious practice. Therefore, it is important to address how medical and pharmacy students respond to, and deal with, ethical dilemmas in their clinical environments. In this paper, we examined how studen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Medical Ethics. in. - Society for the Study of Medical Ethics. - 42(2016), 7, Seite 466-473
1. Verfasser: Henning, Marcus A (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Malpas, Phillipa, Ram, Sanya, Rajput, Vijay, Krstić, Vladimir, Boyd, Matt, Hawken, Susan J
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of Medical Ethics. in
Schlagworte:Philosophy Health sciences Education Environmental studies
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