Pattern Designing for Medical Ethic Curriculum with Islamic Approach

Medical ethic as a science and an interdisciplinary subject is a part of medical studentsʹ curriculum. One of important gaps in the country’s medical science universities curriculum is that it fails to offer a distinct pattern which would address the nation’s native features for teaching medical ethic. This study is based on three qualitative methods (Qualitative content analysis, systematic review and literature review) and by mixing the gathered information from the experiences of professionals in medical ethic, international experiences, and Islamic recourses a theoretical pattern for medical ethic curriculum with the Islamic approach was designed. The designed pattern in this study includes several levels: in which the most important and first level is the essentials of medical ethics curriculum with Islamic approach, and in higher level there are the deduced principles of these essentials. These essentials and principles give direction to the aims of this pattern. These aims not only cover the formal medical ethics curriculum but also pay attention to the hidden curriculum itself. The features of different dimensions of this pattern are compatible with the results of similar ongoing researches, and in this pattern medical ethics curriculum is not only as a course but also constitutes a super-schedule in studentsʹ whole curriculum.