{"id":47,"date":"2004-03-08T16:12:42","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=47"},"modified":"2004-03-08T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T16:12:42","slug":"medics-and-moral-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/03\/08\/medics-and-moral-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Medics and moral reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentbmj.com\/back_issues\/0503\/news\/135a.html\">studentbmj.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A study of a class of Quebec medical students has prompted researchers to ask whether a hidden curriculum exists in the structure of medical education that inhibits rather than facilitates moral reasoning. The study appears in the April 1 edition of the Canadian Association Medical Journal (CMAJ 2003;168:840-4).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Using a french-varient of the Kohlberg moral reasoning scale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The authors say that in the results they did not observe the increase in the development of moral reasoning that was expected with maturation and involvement in university studies: &#8220;We found a significant decrease in weighted average scores after three years of medical education.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see the appropriate controls for all other kinds of further education. Reminds me a bit of the anecdata about selfish (aka &#8216;rational&#8217;) behaviour increasing as economics students progress in their studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From studentbmj.com A study of a class of Quebec medical students has prompted researchers to ask whether a hidden curriculum exists in the structure of medical education that inhibits rather than facilitates moral reasoning. The study appears in the April 1 edition of the Canadian Association Medical Journal (CMAJ 2003;168:840-4). Using a french-varient of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}