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ArticleBMC medicine2013

Promoting networks between evidence-based medicine and values-based medicine in continuing medical education.

Myriam M Altamirano-Bustamante, Nelly F Altamirano-Bustamante, Alberto Lifshitz, Ignacio Mora-Magaña, Adalberto de Hoyos, María Teresa Avila-Osorio, Silvia Quintana-Vargas, Jorge A Aguirre, Jorge Méndez, Chiharu Murata and 13 more

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Article in BMC medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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23 authors.

Myriam M Altamirano-BustamanteGrupo Transfuncional en Etica Clínica, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, Mexico 06720 D.F., Mexico. myriamab@unam.mx
Nelly F Altamirano-Bustamante
Alberto Lifshitz
Ignacio Mora-Magaña
Adalberto de Hoyos
María Teresa Avila-Osorio
Silvia Quintana-Vargas
Jorge A Aguirre
Jorge Méndez
Chiharu Murata
Rodrigo Nava-Diosdado
Oscar Martínez-González
Elisa Calleja
Raúl Vargas
Juan Manuel Mejía-Arangure
Araceli Cortez-Domínguez
Fernand Vedrenne-Gutiérrez
Perla Sueiras
Juan Garduño
Sergio Islas-Andrade
Fabio Salamanca
Jesús Kumate-Rodríguez
Alejandro Reyes-Fuentes

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn recent years, medical practice has followed two different paradigms: evidence-based medicine (EBM) and values-based medicine (VBM). There is an urgent need to promote medical education that strengthens the relationship between these two paradigms. This work is designed to establish the foundations for a continuing medical education (CME) program aimed at encouraging the dialogue between EBM and VBM by determining the values relevant to everyday medical activities.

methodsA quasi-experimental, observational, comparative, prospective and qualitative study was conducted by analyzing through a concurrent triangulation strategy the correlation between healthcare personnel-patient relationship, healthcare personnel's life history, and ethical judgments regarding dilemmas that arise in daily clinical practice.In 2009, healthcare personnel working in Mexico were invited to participate in a free, online clinical ethics course. Each participant responded to a set of online survey instruments before and after the CME program. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare personnel, focusing on their views and representations of clinical practice.

resultsThe healthcare personnel's core values were honesty and respect. There were significant differences in the clinical practice axiology before and after the course (P <0.001); notably, autonomy climbed from the 10th (order mean (OM) = 8.00) to the 3rd position (OM = 5.86). In ethical discernment, the CME program had an impact on autonomy (P ≤0.0001). Utilitarian autonomy was reinforced in the participants (P ≤0.0001). Regarding work values, significant differences due to the CME intervention were found in openness to change (OC) (P <0.000), self-transcendence (ST) (P <0.001), and self-enhancement (SE) (P <0.019). Predominant values in life history, ethical discernment and healthcare personnel-patient relation were beneficence, respect and compassion, respectively.

conclusionsThe healthcare personnel participating in a CME intervention in clinical ethics improved high-order values: Openness to change (OC) and Self Transcendence (ST), which are essential to fulfilling the healing ends of medicine. The CME intervention strengthened the role of educators and advisors with respect to healthcare personnel. The ethical values developed by healthcare professionals arise from their life history and their professional formation.

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Health PersonnelAdultEducation, Medical, ContinuingEvidence-Based MedicineFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMexicoMiddle AgedProspective StudiesValue-Based Purchasing

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PMID23414220
PMCPMC3606451

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