O que pensam estudantes de medicina de primeiro e sexto anos sobre questões bioéticas referentes ao início e final de vida

Abstract

Medical students are neither called upon reflecting on their moral and ethical principles nor discussing what they experience in the relationships games imposed on them during their formation Bioethics has come to open an important space for dialogic reflection in the void that traditional medical schools still retains in their curricula, in order to rescue the relevance of the moral framework of the individuals who attend them Questions about abortion, sex selection, forms of euthanasia assisted reproduction, embryo cryopreservation, are being continuously discussed by the medical society. This paper derives from research carried out with medical students of the first and sixth years of State Universities in Paraná on bioethical issues related to the beginning and end of life, with the aim to investigate what they think on these issues, and analyze the survey results taking into consideration two different teaching models: Traditional and Problem-Based Learning (PBL) The methodology consisted of questionnaires with open and closed-ended questions submitted to 211 students of public universities, characterizing a descriptive study of quantitative and qualitative approach to simple random samples. The study showed that there was no significant difference between the answers of first-year and last- year-students from those institutions. Also, no significant differences between the traditional model and the PBL model on the same issues were found. Therefore, the curricula of the institution do not seem to have been decisive in the teaching-learning process in this area, at least for the group studied in this paper.