Educação ética na formação médica.

Abstract

The objectives were to show the result of the process of learning ethics and bioethics in medical student education through the method of resolution of moral dilemmas and evaluate the applicability of Konstanz Method of solving problems of moral dilemmas in medical practice. For that, two workshops were performed, the firt with freshman students and the second with the seniors students from the medical school UNISC, applying the same moral dilemma to both. After applying the workshop a qualitative evaluation was performed using the method of analysis of the content. The results demonstrated that students who will become physicians can make amoral point of view through discussion, even without a consensus is reached.These conclusions are in line with the theory of discourse ethics of Habermas.These conclusions confirm the hypothesis that this method can be used within thecurriculum of medical schools, as another way of teaching ethics to medical students.