Teaching bioethics in undergraduate of health professionals

Abstract

Study Design: Sistematic Review of literature. Aims: To know the scientific production that explore on the teaching of Bioethics in the teaching learning for health professionals. Methodology: Exploratory study to identify article on the teaching of bioethics in undergraduate health professional, published from 2005 to July 2013, published in Portuguese, English and Spanish languages. Results: 38 articles had been selected, with the biggest publication number in 2009, in the area of medicine, with a predominance of original/empirical articles (50%). The majority of selected articles pointed out the teaching of bioethics for undergraduate courses in the health area (n = 14; 36.84%). Conclusion: In accordance with the results obtained by this research, it was found an agreement between authors related to the importance to introduce the discipline Bioethics in the curriculum matrix for the undergraduate courses on the health area.