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MD -- The Making of a Doctor, Part II
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Classroom Activity
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Objective
To review and suggest changes to the Hippocratic Oath.
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copy of "Hippocratic Oath" student handout (HTML)
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Copy and distribute the "Hippocratic Oath" student handout.
After students have reviewed the oath, point out to the class
that it was written more than a thousand years ago. If they were
to write a new oath for doctors in the 2000s, how might students
change the document? What values would they want to keep? Divide
the class into groups and ask each group to write a new oath for
the medical profession.
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After students have read the Hippocratic Oath and written their
own, have groups share how they
Updated the oath.
As they review the Hippocratic Oath, students will probably find
that many of the values included in it are still worthy. It is
likely that students will choose to retain most of the values of
nondiscrimination, maintaining privacy of the patient, and general
respect for life. Some of the changes that they may want to make
might involve including more choices about new technology or
changing the line "my colleagues will be my brothers" to more
nonsexist language.
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