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  • Medical Education
  • Bioethics
  • Patient Advocacy

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  • Healthcare professionals must speak up to prevent harm and ensure quality care.
  • Speaking up is a critical skill for medical students, yet often challenging.
  • Effective patient advocacy requires the ability to address concerns and unprofessional behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate an ethical action exercise designed to teach medical students to speak up.
  • To assess the impact of the exercise on students' willingness and confidence in addressing patient care issues.
  • To integrate practical speaking-up skills into a bioethics curriculum.

Main Methods:

  • An ethical action exercise was developed and integrated into a required bioethics course for third-year medical students.
  • Students were required to identify and address a situation during their clerkships.
  • Students determined the specifics of when, where, and how to act.

Main Results:

  • 111 students participated, with most addressing patient care improvements (70%) or unprofessional conduct (29%).
  • A significant majority (86%) found speaking up difficult, but 41% reported improved patient care outcomes.
  • Most students (64 vs. 2) reported increased likelihood of speaking up in the future.

Conclusions:

  • The ethical action exercise effectively encouraged medical students to speak up.
  • The intervention shows promise in developing essential advocacy skills for future physicians.
  • Further work is needed to foster lasting habits and understand cultural influences on speaking up.