學院	醫學院
系所	職能治療學系
題名	Embedding medical ethics into occupational therapy clinical practice education.
作者	Lin, Y-C., & Lin, K. C.*
期刊名稱	Journal of Medical Education
發表日期	2022
著作性質	原著
語文	英文
關鍵字	Occupational therapy, Occupational therapy education, Ethical issues, Medical ethic education, Professionalism, Moral reasoning
摘要	Background: Ethical issues in occupational therapy education is important with a need for development of internship curriculum and continuing professional education. Ethics education has evolved over the past 20 years but there remains a lack of international guidelines for ethics education in to occupational therapy. Purpose: The purpose of this review is threefold. The first aim of the review was to identify published contents of ethic education in occupational therapy. The second aim was to analyze relevant teaching methods and evaluation tools. As a third purpose, this review summarized contemporary medical ethic theories. Methods. We searched articles published in English from PubMed from January 2015 to August 2021, with the key words as “occupational therapy”, “ethic education”, “ethical issue”, “professionalism”, “moral reasoning”. In order to perform a review to assess contemporary education methods in the aspect of embedding medical ethics into occupational therapy clinical practice education. Results. A total of 17 articles were included in our study. We collected and organized them in the context of current status in the medical ethic education, including the education contents, the education methods and education fields, and the way to evaluate the learning effectiveness. Conclusion. This review study provides a better understand of contemporary medical ethic education, of which shed light on embedding medical ethics into occupational therapy clinical practice education. Future research is warranted to improve evidence- based education methods of occupational therapy in this understudied area.