Mohammad Ali Chughtai, Brekhna Jamil.
Evaluation Of Ethical Sensitivity Of Freshly Graduated Dentists.
Adv Health Prof Educ Jan ;2(1):10-5.

BACKGROUND: The aim of teaching ethics to the doctors is to make them recognize the humanistic and ethical aspects of medical careers. These days understanding of dentistry and its culture as a profession are in tension with understanding dentistry and its culture as a business. So ethics teaching and assessment should be given due importance. Therefore, this research work aimed to evaluate ethical sensitivity of freshly graduated dentists. AIM: To evaluate ethical sensitivity of the freshly graduated dentists at the completion of bachelor’s of dental surgery program in Sardar Begum Dental College. METHODS: All freshly graduated dentists doing house job at Sardar Begum Dental College were formally invited to the Prosthodontics Department. After an informed consent taken related to their willingness for participation, data collection from each participant was obtained through a standardized questionnaire containing Vignettes/ scenarios. RESULTS: Mean age of the participants was 23 years. About 53% freshly graduated dentists in the study were found to be ethically sensitive whereas, 47% were partially sensitive to ethics. Within the limitations of the study relation between ethical sensitivity of freshly graduated dentists and gender and class attendance of the participants was insignificant. CONCLUSION: There is a need to do curricular modifications in terms of instructional strategies and assessment related to ethics teaching inorder to increase ethical sensitivity of our dental graduates. Due to an obvious association between ethics and patient care, it is important to assess ethical sensitivity of the students before they begin their clinical experiences.

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