Medical Ethics Course?

[bobeanie95]

Hey everyone,

I need to take some random classes in order to be a full time student and I came across a medical ethics course. I was curious to see if anyone has taken a medical ethics course during your undergrad years. If so, did you feel as if it helped prepare for the interview process? Would you recommend just reading up on ethical topics instead?

Thanks for any input!

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[WedgeDawg]

I took a ton of bioethics courses, but I did so because I was interested, not because I thought they would help me on the interview trail. I enjoyed them a lot, but I don't think they helped with interviewing, even MMI, more so than any other class that helps you organize your thoughts and construct an argument. Take it if you're interested in the subject matter. If you're not interested, take something else.

 

[number9]

I am currently taking a medical ethics course where we cover many topics in medicine that can be "sticky" (end of life care, abortion, assistive reproductive technology, etc) from Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives. How useful you find it will definitely will depend on your professor and the way the class is structured, of course, but I am finding it incredibly meaningful! The ability to cover so many different perspectives by focusing on different religious responses to the ethical questions has been cool--the religious perspectives frame the issues very differently, so considering them forces me to think about the ethical question from angles that might not seem super obvious at first.

There's a student in my class currently going through the application cycle, and he told me about an interview scenario that was really relevant to the material, but I think the practice of looking at an ethical question from different viewpoints was what helped him, not necessarily the specific content of the course. So if you don't think you'd find it interesting, any class that challenges you to think from a lot of perspectives would probably be equally useful. As you mentioned, you could always read up on those things on your own! But from my personal experience I think the course will help me address tough issues with patients by providing me with many more moral lenses to see through and with more practice in general at thinking critically about these issues.

 

[theonlytycrane]

Just read Doing Right by Dr. Hebert for some context about the 4 big ethical tenets of:

patient autonomy
beneficence
non-malificence
justice

 

[candbgirl]

Can be really interesting but as someone said much depends on the professor. I really like these classes and they definitely helped me to start to think about different areas. But don't take it if you think it will help you at interviews specifically.


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[efgih]

Take it, medical ethics is extremely relevant to being a physician, and it's an interesting class to boot (though I might be biased as I am a Philos major)

 

[LizzyM]

Hey everyone,

I need to take some random classes in order to be a full time student and I came across a medical ethics course. I was curious to see if anyone has taken a medical ethics course during your undergrad years. If so, did you feel as if it helped prepare for the interview process? Would you recommend just reading up on ethical topics instead?

Thanks for any input!

No one can really give you an accurate answer unless they know where you are taking this course. Do you use "ratemyprofessor.com" to check out courses at your school. Don't get stuck in something that is a yawn or that is going to kill your GPA.

You will cover medical ethics in medical school. Unless the course is super-interesting to you right now and has good reviews, you might want to take something totally unrelated to medicine and unlikely to be covered again in medical school...

 

[bobeanie95]

Thanks everyone for your responses, it seems that it won't be super helpful for the interview, which is okay. It's hard to tell if this is something I'd be interested in because I've never taken an ethics or philosophy course. It doesnt help either that there is no synopsis/syllabus posted for the class

 

[Lawpy]

Hey everyone,

I need to take some random classes in order to be a full time student and I came across a medical ethics course. I was curious to see if anyone has taken a medical ethics course during your undergrad years. If so, did you feel as if it helped prepare for the interview process? Would you recommend just reading up on ethical topics instead?

Thanks for any input!

If you want to read up on online resources, you can find them below (titled Bioethics)

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/sdn-collection-of-healthcare-resources.1209167/

If anyone has links/resources to share, kindly let me know and I will add them.

Regarding taking the course, I would do it because ethics and philosophy are really valuable and insightful subjects, especially if they have medical applications that challenge you to think as a physician encountering a difficult ethical and/or moral dilemma.

 

[Pusheen]

Just read Doing Right by Dr. Hebert for some context about the 4 big ethical tenets of:

patient autonomy
beneficence
non-malificence
justice

why is this book ~$70-100 everywhere 😱

 

[theonlytycrane]

why is this book ~$70-100 everywhere 😱

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