Ethical Discourse of Medical Students on the Phenomenon of Death: A Qualitative Study

Author:

Keleş Şükrü1ORCID,Gül Şenay2ORCID,Yıldız Abdullah3,Karabulut Seyhan Demir4,Eren Handan5,İskender Mahinur Durmuş6,Baykara Zehra Göçmen7,Yalım Neyyire Yasemin8

Affiliation:

1. Department of Medical History and Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey

2. Fundamentals of Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

3. Department of Medical History and Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

4. Department of Medical History and Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey

5. Department of Nursing, Health Sciences Faculty, Yalova University, Yalova, Turkey

6. Taskopru Vocational School of Higher Education, Kastamonu University, Kastamonu, Turkey

7. Department of Nursing, Health Sciences Faculty, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

8. Turkish Bioethics Association, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract

The aim of this study is to discover medical students’ ideas on the phenomenon of death; produce information on how these students interpret the value-related problems regarding death that they come across in different units of hospitals; and assess this data in ethical terms. This study included a qualitative research in which 12 focus group interviews were conducted with 92 fifth- and sixth-year medical students. Data obtained from interviews were assessed using a thematic content secondary analysis. The main themes were specified according to the medical students’ statements and were reviewed under the contexts of the “dying process”; “effects of death”; “attitude and behavior of health professionals”; “seeing a dead body/looking at a dead body”; “accepting death”; and “forms of expressions of death.” Medical students’ encounters with death in different units of hospitals leads them to question their values and familiarize themselves with the borders of their areas of profession.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Life-span and Life-course Studies,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine,Health(social science)

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