Factors Affecting the Learning of Medical Ethics and Etiquette from the Perspective of Medical Teachers and Students of Kermanshah Medical School in 2019

Students’ understanding of the basic principles of attending the university, classrooms, and patient beds and acquiring the necessary skills to deal with the problems of student life, professors, other students, and patients are essential for their education and learning.

This study aimed to determine the factors affecting the learning of medical ethics courses based on the role of active teaching methods in better and practical learning of medical ethics and ethics courses.

This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on the lecturers of relevant courses and medical students of Kermanshah Medical School in 2018-2019 on 201 people using a convenient sampling method. The data collection tool was a 22-question researcher-made questionnaire on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from no effect (1) to very much (5), whose validity and reliability were confirmed (Cronbach’s alpha= 0.8). The collected data were imported to SPSS software version 21 and analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics.

From the students’ point of view, influential factors in learning these courses were clinical memories, professors’ experience (80.6%), professor’s intimacy with students, scientific mastery (76.6%), professor’s clear and expressive expression (76.6%), acquaintance with leading professors and ethical model in university (66%), physical space, classroom facilities, audio-visual facilities (65.8%), review of key points and summaries in the classroom, using animation (55%), educational images and infographics, applications and cyberspace in the classes of medical etiquette and ethics. The opinion of the professors was in line with the students (53.5%).

Many factors affecting the learning of medical etiquette and ethics courses were similar to other courses, but there were differences in some cases. The teachers shared the opinions of the students and professors about the importance and priority of the factors affecting the learning of these courses.