title: Ethics education for health professionals: a values based approach.
abstract: It is now widely accepted that ethics is an essential part of educating health professionals. Despite a clear mandate to educators, there are differing approaches, in particular, how and where ethics is positioned in training programmes, underpinning philosophies and optimal modes of assessment. This paper explores varying practices and argues for a values based approach to ethics education. It then explores the possibility of using a web-based technology, the Values Exchange, to facilitate a values based approach. It uses the findings of a small scale study to signal the potential of the Values Exchange for engaging, meaningful and applied ethics education.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, AUT University, Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. Electronic address: rgodbold@aut.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Godbold
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lees
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D018961:Educational Technology; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000193:education*; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet
keywords: Ethics education; Health care ethics; Values based decision making