Bioethics knowledge between students and professors

Abstract

The medical program curriculum includes bioethics and deontology courses, aiming to prepare
students for the professional future, to make them understand and deal with the biopsychosocial
aspects of situations that will arise in professional practice. This is a descriptive, observational,
cross-sectional study with 105 participants, divided into three groups: students who have completed
the course, students who have not completed the course, and professors/preceptors. After applying a
questionnaire, the groups were compared using the chi-square test. Students who had not completed
the bioethics course had a lower percentage of correct answers in all questions. Being a physician
and having practical experience was significant only in one question, demonstrating that the course
was effective in providing students with bioethics knowledge and that medical practice can lead to
automatism, which requires reflection.