@article{95e7f395ee5b4bfa8f5a6c50c41bc24b,
title = "Teaching Ethics to Pediatric Residents: A Literature Analysis and Synthesis",
abstract = "Background: Ethics education rarely exists in pediatric resident curricula, although ethical conflicts are common in the clinical practice. Ethics education can prepare residents to successfully handle these conflicts. Aim: We searched for methods in teaching ethics to clinical and especially pediatric residents, and identified recurring barriers to ethics teaching and solutions to overcome them. Design: Literature from 4 electronic databases with peer-reviewed articles was screened in 3 phases and analyzed. The literature included papers referring to applied methods or recommendations to teaching ethics to clinical residents, and on a second level focusing especially on pediatrics. An analysis and critical appraisal was conducted. Results:3231 articles were identified. 96 papers were included. The applied learning theory, the reported teaching approaches, the barriers to teaching ethics and the provided solutions were studied and analyzed. Conclusions: We recommend case-based ethics education, including lectures, discussion, individual study; regular teaching sessions in groups, under supervision; affiliation to an ethics department, institutional and departmental support; ethics rounds and consultations not as core teaching activity; recurring problems to teaching ethics, primarily deriving from the complexity of residential duties to be addressed in advance; teaching ethics preferably in the first years of residency. We may be cautious generalizing the implementation of results on populations with different cultural backgrounds.",
keywords = "curriculum, pediatrics, ethics, postgraduate education",
author = "K. Martakis and K. Czabanowska and Peter Schr{\"o}der",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1055/s-0042-109709",
language = "English",
volume = "228",
pages = "263--269",
journal = "Klinische Padiatrie",
issn = "0300-8630",
publisher = "Georg Thieme Verlag",
number = "5",
}