Residents' Ethical Disagreements with Attending Physicians: An Unrecognized Problem.

Shreves, Jennifer Giaquinto; Moss, Alvin H.

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ERIC Number: EJ532779

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1996

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Residents' Ethical Disagreements with Attending Physicians: An Unrecognized Problem.

Shreves, Jennifer Giaquinto; Moss, Alvin H.

Academic Medicine, v71 n10 p1103-05 Oct 1996

In a survey of 36 residents and 41 medical faculty at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, residents recounted 127 ethical disagreements between attending physicians and housestaff in the previous year; attending physicians reported 19. Students' most troubling disagreements were over treatments they considered futile. Only 11 had discussed most troubling disagreements with the physician. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution, Ethics, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication, Physicians, Professional Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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