Knowledge of medical ethics among medical students in Salvador

Abstract This is a cross-sectional, observational study conducted between August and October 2018, to survey knowledge of medical ethics among 601 medical college students of a private university in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Were collected the data through a multiple-choice questionnaire with a simulation of seven cases involving ethical conflicts. The participants were mostly young females, and part of them had a previous academic degree. Most students reported having read the code of medical ethics and considered its language easy to understand. Except for some slight variations, knowledge of medical ethics proved to be progressive over the semesters, and the best performance was in the last semester of the program.摘要 本研究为横断面观察性研究，于2018年8月至10月间开展，旨在调查巴西巴伊亚州萨尔瓦多市某私立大学的601名医学生对医学伦理学的认知水平。研究采用包含7个模拟伦理冲突场景的多项选择问卷收集数据。受试者以年轻女性居多，其中部分受试者已拥有此前获得的学术学位。多数学生表示曾阅读过医学伦理守则，并认为其表述通俗易懂。除少数细微差异外，学生的医学伦理学认知水平随学期推进逐步提升，且该培养项目最后一学期的学生表现最优。