Publications by authors named "C Route"
Purpose: To use issues identified by students in order to establish an experience- and evidence-based approach to medical ethics education.
Method: A total of 628 sophomore and senior students at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were asked to identify incidents during their clinical training that had raised ethical concerns. The sophomores were surveyed during two time periods: 1979-80, and 1991-92 and 1992-93; the seniors were surveyed in 1991-92 and 1992-93.
Background: Rotations by American medical students in foreign countries have been common in US medical schools for nearly half a century. Although anecdotal literature makes claims for the significant educational value of these foreign rotations, neither the nature and educational consequences of these experiences, nor the students' impressions, have been thoroughly documented.
Methods: To document the educational impact of clinical rotations in developing countries, all 30 students at the University of Buffalo who participated in such rotations during a period of 7 years were given a questionnaire to complete.