THE MORAL PRACTICES USED IN BIOETHICS AS A DISCIPLINE IN THE FACULTIES OF MEDICINE IN THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO

Abstract

This research analysed bioethics disciplines from five Faculties of Medicine in the State of São Paulo were 206 students responded to closed questionnaires and five focal groups of 56 students; and nine teachers were interviewed. The responses of the focal groups and interviews were evaluated and classified qualitatively in categories using Bardin’s categorical content analysis method. Among students’ answers, it was noted that the moral practices and techniques which most mobilized them were: deliberative activities such as feature film and/or TV series discussions, case discussions, roleplaying – dramatization, discussion debates, and lectures and in a smaller proportion traditional lecture classes i.e., the theoretical-practical component tutored from an expositive dialogical perspective. Therefore, these can enable and enhance the process of forming moral identity, which students undergo; if planned adequately to their experiences and through practice and a structural use and if applied with some knowledge of the methodological rationale behind the techniques thus, allowing both the moral intelligence capabilities and building-up of the students’ moral personality to be stimulated and developed.