Abstract

COUCEIRO-VIDAL, A.. Teaching bioethics in outcome-based curricula. Educ. méd. [online]. 2008, vol.11, n.2, pp.69-76. ISSN 1575-1813.

Increasingly accepted is that the bioethics must be part of the training of professionals of medicine, yet many points remain unclear, as its character of ethics applied, or its dispute with the professionalism, with the deontology professional, or with the law. This article tries to show that the bioethics civic ethics is applied to the relationship clinic, which represents the incorporation of civil and social rights this relationship, and the identification and management of conflicts of values arising from this interaction. The teaching of bioethics in the faculties of medicine should be inserted, like the rest of the subjects, in the framework of competences. Define knowledge and develop specific skills, is also the objective of this discipline. This article presents a proposal of competence and content for the teaching of bioethics, articulated in the two levels (preclinical and aged) that characterized the teaching of medicine.

Keywords : Bioethics; Educational competences; Medical education; Medical humanities.

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