Advances in Medical Ethics
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A Qualitative Assessment on the Implementation Issues of Medical Ethics

Tim Braine^{* *}Correspondence: Tim Braine, Department of Medical Ethics, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, Email:

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About the Study

Patients and their families encounter a variety of issues in the health-care system, including medical errors, lengthy wait times for diagnostic or therapeutic services, end-of-life complications and deadly diseases for terminal patients, and ethical decisionmaking dilemmas in a variety of settings. Enhancing the quality of health-care services in response to patients' expanding health requirements is dependent on how well medical practitioners adhere to ethical norms. Patients' faith and reliance in the medical community suffer as a result of a lack of such surveillance. Understanding and applying ethical concepts is a significant issue in practicing and observing medical ethics. Research suggests that ethical competency, like any other, can be thought and acquired, and that it can considerably improve relations at many levels between medical professionals and patients, ultimately leading to increased professional dedication. According to the findings of this study, education programmes for such competencies have yet to be properly considered.

Many clinical specialists with competent medical knowledge are unaware of medical ethics. Furthermore, in many circumstances, medical teams with adequate knowledge of medical ethics disregard ethics principles in practice, resulting in moral misbehavior and undermining people's and communities' trust in medical professionals and health-care teams. Inadequate medical ethics awareness among physicians and the health-care team; a failure of the educational system to effectively train medical students in ethical principles; and a lack of defined management strategies to promote and develop medical ethics in the educational and medical bodies. Such medical ethics concerns must be regularly monitored in order to discover acceptable remedies. Patients differing viewpoints on ethical issues may be due to a variety of cultural contexts as well as cultural gaps between patients and the healthcare team. The cultural context of each patient and his or her family should be considered when respecting patient autonomy and informing patients and their families with the painful truth about their health conditions and treatment plan.

Even in nations where medical ethics concepts are widely accepted, differing interpretations and understandings of these principles might exist. As a result, depending on its cultural conditions and prevalent views, each community encourages medical practitioners to examine medical ethics in order to properly adopt and apply medical ethics principles in the healthcare system. This study investigates major problems in adopting medical ethics at all levels, from government to the bedside. Earlier studies, on the other hand, merely gave a list of patients' expectations, medical blunders, ethical issues, or communication issues between medical personnel and patients as well as colleagues.

Another difficulty in the health-care system is the youth and unfamiliarity with modern medical ethics. Medical ethics has yet to be recognized as a science and has yet to find a home in medical education. Policymakers in health care and medical education should focus more on institutionalizing medical ethics in the healthcare and educational systems, as well as the need of medical students learning ethical knowledge.

This findings indicate that medical ethics challenges are cognitive, educational, and practical; these educational and cognitive challenges can be resolved by increasing the quantity and quality of medical ethics educational programmes for all medical professionals, from medical students to faculty members. This study stated that medical ethics' cognitive and educational obstacles can be alleviated by adopting educational programmes aimed at improving qualitative and quantitative components of medical ethics training for medical professionals ranging from students to faculty members. Medical ethics' structural and practical issues are addressed in policymaking and scheduling activities by future study by health-care system managers and planners.