임상실습 학생들이 경험하는 윤리적 갈등 상황

The importance and the role of ethics courses in medical school education has expanded significantly in recent years. Along with this development, most of the medical schools have provided with the concepts and skills needed to deal successfully with the issues that they will confront as physicians in the future. But medical students are not physicians, and the issues they face are quite different from those faced by physicians.

Accordingly, many existing ethics curricula fail to address the subtle yet critical ethical issues that medical students encounter everyday in their clinical clerkships.

This paper reviews several literatures on the current status of the student-specific ethics in the United States, and calls for a special attention of medical educators in this particular area in Korea.