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  • Optometry Education
  • Medical Ethics
  • Health Professions Training

Background:

  • Ethical reasoning is vital for registered health professionals, including optometrists, to ensure optimal patient care.
  • Applying ethical knowledge in practical scenarios is a critical skill for healthcare practitioners.
  • Case-based scenario workshops offer a potential method for teaching and assessing ethical knowledge application.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of a case-based ethics workshop in enhancing optometry students' confidence in addressing ethical dilemmas.
  • To identify the benefits and challenges of using case-based workshops for ethics education in optometry.

Main Methods:

  • An intervention study was conducted at an Australian university involving optometry students.
  • A pre- and post-workshop survey assessed students' confidence in navigating ethical dilemmas.
  • Statistical analysis, including the Mann-Whitney U test, was used to compare confidence levels.

Main Results:

  • Fifty-nine students completed the pre-workshop survey, and 49 completed the post-workshop survey.
  • No significant difference in baseline confidence was found based on prior experience.
  • A statistically significant improvement in confidence was observed, rising from 53% pre-workshop to 82% post-workshop (Z = -2.541, p = 0.011).

Conclusions:

  • Case-based ethics workshops are an effective educational tool for improving students' confidence in ethical decision-making.
  • The findings support the incorporation of such workshops into optometry curricula.
  • This educational strategy may also be beneficial for other health profession programs.