关于医学伦理学教育的几点思考

医学伦理学教育中长期存在的一些问题尚未很好解决.由于较多强调课程的道德教育功能,对其作为独立学科存在的性质和意义仍重视不够,医学伦理学是进行道德分析、准则与价值评判的理论体系,通过医学伦理学的学习和训练,应使学生能够对有关问题在广阔的背景中进行深层次思考并做出独立判断.我们应在进一步更新观念的基础上,改进哲学、伦理学基础教育,以促进医学伦理学教育的发展,而其意义已远超出医学伦理学之外.

Some Thoughts on The Education of Medical Ethics

There are still some problems in the education of medical ethics which are not solved adequately for quite a long run. Though medical ethics is generally considered as a stand-alone subject, we haven't paid enough attention to its unique characteristics and meanings, partly because we emphasize too much the likely moral functions of ethical education. In fact medical ethics is a theoretical system of moral analysis, principles evaluation and value judgement, which will help the students through certain learning and training to consider the corresponding questions against a wider background and reflect them more deeply, hence conclude more independently. Therefore, we should change our traditional idea of medical ethics to improve the fundamental education of philosophy and ethics in the light of promoting the development of the discipline. And this will benefit far beyond the single subject of medical ethics.