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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.
- copy of "Hippocratic Oath" student handout
(HTML)
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. 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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