Attitude of students and teachers of the Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, to medical ethics

• Autores: Izaguirre Sotomayor, Manuel Hernán, Reátegui Guzmán, Luis Américo, Mori Ramírez, Hallder, Robles Rodríguez, Fabricio Junior, Sánchez Vilcapuma, Walter Junior
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/11405
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/11405
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Ethics; Professional.; Ética; Ética profesional.

Introduction. Ethics deals with moral, and therefore is used to describe people’s actions exercised in full freedom as good or bad, that is to say linked to what should or should not be done. Objective. To determine attitude to medical ethics of undergraduate students and teachers of San Marcos Department of Pediatrics. Design. Non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational descriptive quantitative study. Setting. Department of Pediatrics, San Fernando School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima. Peru. Participants. Students and teachers of the Pediatrics Department. Interventions. The instrument applied was a Likert type attitude scale constructed by the authors. Main outcome measures. Attitude to medical ethics. Results. Teachers’ attitude towards ethics was more favorable (82%) than that of the students (48%). However, only 36% of teachers and 9% of students had a very favorable attitude. Conclusions. Teachers of the Department of Pediatrics had a more favorable attitude to ethics than the students’ and more satisfaction towards deontology than the students. Teachers and students had an unfavorable and very unfavorable attitude towards the construct “society is not completely moral”, respectively.