How ethics is taught by European veterinary faculties: a review of published literature and web resources

M. Magalhães-Sant’Ana; I.A.S. Olsson; P. Sandøe; K. Millar

How ethics is taught by European veterinary faculties: a review of published literature and web resources

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M. Magalhães-Sant’Ana

M. Magalhães-Sant’Ana ¹Laboratory Animal Science, IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal
²Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Largo Prof. Abel Salazar2, 4099-003 Porto, Portugal
mdsantana@gmail.com

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I.A.S. Olsson

I.A.S. Olsson ¹Laboratory Animal Science, IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal

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P. Sandøe

P. Sandøe ³Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 25, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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K. Millar ⁴Centre for Applied Bioethics, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, LE12 5RD, United Kingdom

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Pages:: 439–446

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867103_072

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There is growing acknowledgement of the requirement to introduce future veterinarians to ethics. This subject, however, was not part of the original undergraduate veterinary programmes and there seems to be little consensus on how it should be included within the overall curriculum. In addition, ethics can be related to a number of different subjects covered in veterinary training, such as animal welfare science, professionalism, codes of professional conduct, and animal bioethics, to name but a few. Currently, there is no systematic approach that can be applied to identify what is understood by ethics in veterinary education, how it is taught, and how ethics teaching relates to the rest of the curricula. This paper presents an initial attempt to comprehensively map how undergraduate veterinary ethics is being taught across Europe. In terms of the data analysis, the data set derives from two information sources. Firstly, the web-based resources provided by 85 European Faculties out of the 99 available at the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) website, are consulted (using a keyword search) to identify curricular units that relate to ethics. This data source is also used to retrieve information about descriptors, teaching methodologies, workload, European Credit Transfer System points (ECTS) and assessment methods. Secondly the relevant peer-reviewed literature on the subject was analysed. Our preliminary results suggest a wide range of ethics-related teaching activities underpinned by different pedagogical approaches and objectives. The diversity of combinations in which ethics appears to be conceptually framed could indicate that there is no explicit common aim in undergraduate veterinary ethics education across European Faculties. This finding may not be unexpected since within the regulation of veterinary training at a European level, in terms of ethics teaching, there is no clear description of the competencies that veterinary students are intended to acquire in this subject area by the end of their course.

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