Teaching ethics

The purpose of pharmacy administration course work is to teach pharmacy students how to design and manage medication use systems that produce optimal results for patients. In pharmacy administration courses, students learn how to conduct medication use evaluations that measure patient outcomes. They are taught how to communicate effectively with patients and with other health care providers. Pharmacy administration courses also teach ethical and legal responsibilities to monitor drug therapy and to protect patients from problems with drug therapy. 

Herkert J. Ways of thinking about and teaching ethical problem solving microethics and macroethics in engineering. Sci Eng Ethic. 2005 ll(3) 373-85. 

Davis, M., RQey, K. (2008). Ethics across the graduate engineering curriculum An experiment in teaching and assessment. Teaching Ethics, 9(1), 25 2. 

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Cliff Davidson from Carnegie Mellon University posed the question of who will teach the ethics Davidson suggested that expert ethicists and humanities professors were seen as appropriate people to teach as well as help develop the curriculum. Vanasupa explained that because faculty members are often already burdened with a full workload, one solution has been to outsource to the experts. At the same time, she said that the outsourcing can also create a disconnect between the faculty and material covered. One solution to the disconnect is coteaching, although there can initially be problems with the administration and infrastructure. 

Of course, there are no guarantees that any approach to teaching and learning engineering or ethics will fix a particular set of ethical lapses, but the view taken here is that the probability of taking the lessons of engineering ethics to heart increase in proportion to how down to earth the study is. This volume has been a down-to-earth affair, and our approach to ethics will stay that course. 

About the Author Dr. Bentley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Administration and Research Associate Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. He received a B.S. in pharmacy and an MBA from Drake University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in pharmacy administration from the University of Mississippi. In addition to statistics, Dr. Bentley s teaching interests focus on the organization, delivery, financing, and outcomes of health care. His research interests include understanding the role of pharmacy practice in how medications and the medication consumption experience affect quality of life, the use of quality-of-life measures as clinical tools, and empirical investigations of ethical issues in pharmacy and research. 

Coppola, Brian P. (2000). Targeting Entry Points for Ethics in Chemistry Teaching and Learning. Journal of Chemical Education 77 1506-1511. 

As in all history, the story of chemicals recalls past events and makes an attempt to explain them. But it can neither create them nor prevent them from recurring. While such history, therefore, teaches us the essential facts that have taken place within two richly endowed centuries, it does not tell us which major facts will form the threads of the next years. It is this unknown factor which makes up the spice of our professional life. We can at least hope that if we conform to reason, to ethics, and to scientific and economic laws for all that is within our scope, each of us will have served this wonderful science that is chemistry to the best of our capacities and in the interests of the greatest number of people. 

Ethics and science have their own domains, which touch but do not interpenetrate. The one shows us to what goal we should aspire, the other, given the goal, teaches us how to attain it... There can no more be immoral science than there can be scientific morals. 

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