Department of Health and Management, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Research Article
Doctors Can Step Into the 'Rough Ground' with Confidence: Confirmed Route to Cultivate Practical Wisdom in Ethical Decision-Making for the Medical Community.
Author(s): Aisha Y Malik*, Mervyn Conroy, Catherine Hale and Chris Turner
Background: Medical practitioners and academics are calling for an alternative process to following clinical guidelines that takes the particularities of the context into account. We argue that the concept of the phronesis virtue when encapsulated in a non-guideline based educational programme provides a way to navigate the complexity and variety of patient cases and arrive at ethically wise decisions. The foundational research of the resource used in the programmes, Phronesis and the Medical community (PMC), sought narratives from doctors on what making ethically wise decisions means to them. What emerged is a ‘collective practical wisdom’ resource in the form of a film series and app. This paper provides a thematic evaluation that indicates that when this resource is integrated into education on ethical decision-making, participants apply their learning .. View More»
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