Teaching medical ethics: Phramongkutklao College of Medicine's model
Surangsrirat, S.; Panichkul, S.; Aimpun, P.; Rangsin, R.; Mungthin, M.; Taamasri, P.; Napradit, P.; Hatthachote, P.; Suwan, K.; Areekul, W.
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 88 Suppl. 3: S105-S109
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-2208 PMID: 16858948 Document Number: 10009
Third-year (first preclinical year) Royal Thai Army (RTA) medical cadets were exposed to a rural community in a community medicine field activity. The poor, kind rural people gave good conditions for student's professional development and empathy. To report a community medicine field work activity for professional development of the RTA medical school. Descriptive analysis on two occasions to evaluate the third-year RTA medical cadets' impressions immediately after the community medicine field activity in a rural area in central Thailand and one year later using baseline scores of cadets' impressions against our institute's objectives. At the end of the field work, 90.9% of the cadets reported they achieved several institute objectives. The four most frequent mentioned were ethical development (70.6%), professionalism (84.3%), human relationship & communication skills (92.2%), and capability to work in the cmmunity (64.7%). Furthermore, RTA medical cadets rated the staff as good role models (51%). The community field work course provided a good environment for the third year medical cadets in building morality and professional development to be good doctors.