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William T.Branch Jr.MD

2000

Moral Development

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Supporting The Moral Development Of Medical Students, William T. Branch Jr. Md, Macp Jan 2000

Supporting The Moral Development Of Medical Students, William T. Branch Jr. Md, Macp

William T.Branch Jr.MD

Philosophers who studied moral development have found that individuals normally progress rapidly in early adulthood from a conventional stage in which they base behavior on the norms and values of those around them to a more principled stage where they identify and attempt to live by personal moral values. Available data suggest that many medical students, who should be in this transition, show little change in their moral development. Possibly, this relates to perceived pressures to conform to the informal culture of the medical wards. Many students experience considerable internal dissidence as they struggle to accommodate personal values related to …