Developing an ethical guideline for clinical teaching in Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

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Author	Hashemi, Akram Yeketaz, Habibeh Asghari, Fariba
Abstract	Clinical education is an essential part of medical trainees’ education process, and curriculum planners agree that it should be based on ethical standards and principles in the medical field. Nevertheless, no explained and codified criteria have been developed for ethics in clinical teaching. This study was aimed to develop an ethical guideline for medical students and teachers as the first and most important step in respecting patients' rights in educational centers.The initial draft included the codes of ethics in clinical education and was developed based on library studies. Subsequently, it was improved through a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and focus group sessions with medical students, patients, and medical teachers in educational hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The improved draft was reviewed and validated by a medical expert panel to prepare the final draft.The codes derived from this study included patients’ choices and rights in purely educational procedures, and special considerations for a) obtaining informed consent for educational procedures; b) performing procedures on deceased persons, patients under anesthesia and those lacking decision making capacity; c) educational visual recordings of the patients; and d) safety monitoring in clinical education. The guideline developed in this study incorporates codes of ethics into clinical training. Therefore, in addition to providing efficient education, the interests of patients and their rights are respected, and the ethical sensitivity of learners in primacy of patients’ best interests will be preserved and enhanced.
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Journal	Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine [J Med Ethics Hist Med]
Volume Number	8
PubMed Central reference number	PMC4733538
PubMed reference number	26839679
e-ISSN	20080387
Language	English
Publisher	Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Publisher Date	2015-04-15
Publisher Place	Tehran, Iran
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2015 Fariba Asghari et al.; licensee Tehran Univ. Med. Sci.
Subject Keyword	clinical teaching ethical guideline medical education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science History Law