Characteristics of Initial Bioethical Views of Medical School Students

The article has presented research results of bioethical views shared by first- and second-year students of the Faculty of General Medicine of the Northern State Medical University (Arkhangelsk) before studying the academic discipline "Bioethics". The subject of the medical and sociological research included the students' knowledge about the limits of medical interventions in natural processes of birth and death, as well as their attitude to biomedical technologies associated with beginning, continuation and an end of a human life. The results of the study have shown that the students had no formed bioethical concepts of living organisms and opportunities for medical procedures with them. Some of them did not have their own opinions about that (45.4 %; 95 % CI 40.0-51.1). Positive (33.7 %; 95 % CI 28.5-39.2) and negative (20.9 %; 95 % CI 16.6-25.8) perceptions of others varied a lot depending on specificity of biomedical technologies

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