Medical Students and Abortion: Reconciling Personal Beliefs and Professional Roles at One Medical School.

Dans, Peter E.

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ERIC Number: EJ443127

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Publication Date: 1992

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Medical Students and Abortion: Reconciling Personal Beliefs and Professional Roles at One Medical School.

Dans, Peter E.

Academic Medicine, v67 n3 p207-11 Mar 1992

Surveys of first- and fourth-year Johns Hopkins University (Maryland) medical students found little change in attitudes about abortion over four years. Attitudes correlated most strongly with personal beliefs about when a fetus is considered human life and somewhat with student gender. Results are used in a medical ethics course to illuminate issues. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Abortions, Beliefs, Ethics, Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Students, Moral Values, Physician Patient Relationship, Professional Education, Student Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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