Ethics of the Health Practitioner in Profession Ethics Courses of Medical Colleges at the University of Tabuk

  • Mohammed Abdelraouf Attia Professor, Department of Education Foundations, King Khaled University, Saudi Arabia
  • Abdel Mohsen Ibrahim Hashim Professor, Department of Languages and Translation, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
  • AB Rashid Mir Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Lab Technology, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
  • Ali Hussain Najmi Associate Professor, Department of Education and Psychology, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
  • Mohammed Abdel Salam Alajamy Professor, Chair of the Foundations of Education Department, Alazhar University, Egypt
  • Habab A. Othman Assistant Professor, Department of Education and Psychology, University of Tabuk. Saudi Arabia
  • Suhad mohammad Rashed Alatwi A postgraduate student at the University of Tabuk. Saudi Arabia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33193/JALHSS.68.2021.516
Keywords: Profession Ethics, Health Practitioner, Content Analysis, University of Tabuk

Abstract

Health professions belong to the human and ethical professions that require practitioners to be fully aware of ethics and to take into account the patients' conditions and absolute benefit. Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) issued the Code of Ethics of the Health Practitioner (2011) with the aim of sensitizing its target segments to their assigned tasks to achieve the health professions the best level. Since the students of the medical and health colleges are the most important of these segments, this study aimed to: (1) identify the professional ethics included in the Code of Ethics of the Health Practitioner, (2) reveal the extent to which the profession ethics courses offered at the medical and health colleges at the University of Tabuk respond to this code of ethics, and (3) propose some procedures to provide students with these ethics. After analyzing the content of these charters of ethics and courses, the results of the study showed that all national charters as well as international Islamic ones contain many ethics related to the health practitioner towards himself/herself, the patient, his/her profession, his/her colleagues, his/her institution, and his/her society. However, it was found that the students of the medical and health colleges at the University of Tabuk have not studied these ethics. Accordingly, the study proposed some procedures for teaching a course on "the Ethics of the Medical and Health Professions."

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Published
2021-06-24
How to Cite
Mohammed Abdelraouf Attia, Abdel Mohsen Ibrahim Hashim, AB Rashid Mir, Ali Hussain Najmi, Mohammed Abdel Salam Alajamy, Habab A. Othman, & Suhad mohammad Rashed Alatwi. (2021). Ethics of the Health Practitioner in Profession Ethics Courses of Medical Colleges at the University of Tabuk. Journal of Arts, Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, (68), 364-380. https://doi.org/10.33193/JALHSS.68.2021.516
Issue
No. 68 (2021)
Section
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