Assessing the Impact of a Ceremony in Honor of the Body Donors in the Development of Ethical and Humanistic Attitudes among Medical Students

Autor/inn/en	da Rocha, Andrea Oxley; Maués, Joao Lins; Chies, Gabriel Antônio Flores; da Silva, Ana Paula
Titel	Assessing the Impact of a Ceremony in Honor of the Body Donors in the Development of Ethical and Humanistic Attitudes among Medical Students
Quelle	In: Anatomical Sciences Education, 13 (2020) 4, S.467-474 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (da Rocha, Andrea Oxley)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1935-9772
DOI	10.1002/ase.1920
Schlagwörter	Human Body; Donors; Medical Students; Medical Education; Ethics; Humanism; Student Attitudes; Attitude Change; Interpersonal Relationship; Foreign Countries; Ceremonies; Death; Reflection; Empathy; Family (Sociological Unit); Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Menschlicher Körper; Medizinische Ausbildung; Ethik; Humanismus; Schülerverhalten; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ausland; Zeremoniell; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Empathie; Familie; Brasilien
Abstract	Activities related to body donation programs, such as donor memorial ceremonies, provide the opportunity to complement student training, especially with regard to the ethical and humanistic elements involved in medical training. This study sought to assess the impact of a ceremony in honor of the body donors has on ethical and humanistic attitudes in medical students. Medical students were surveyed about their perceptions of changes in themselves, respect for donors and donor families, and their relationship with patients. The effect of the students' contact with the family of the donor was analyzed in students who had contact with the cadaver in the dissection room and had either participated or not participated in the donor memorial ceremony. A total of 370 questionnaires were answered by first-, second-, and third-year medical students at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre in 2017. The students who participated in the ceremony presented more positive responses in relation to commitment to their studies, reflection on death, and positive development of empathy when compared to those who did not attend the ceremony. Most of the students that attended the ceremony suggested the event led to an improvement in the doctor-patient relationship. These results suggest that cadaver dissection with accompanied memorial ceremony involving contact with donor families is an effective means of fostering ethical and humanistic attitudes among medical students from the beginning of the course. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01