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View article: Developing Faculty Competencies for the Qualitative Transformation of Medical Ethics Education: Directions and Challenges
Developing Faculty Competencies for the Qualitative Transformation of Medical Ethics Education: Directions and Challenges Open
While medical ethics education across Korea’s medical, dental, and nursing schools has undergone quantitative growth since the 2000s, qualitative development remains limited. This commentary advocates for the establishment of a Korean-adap…
View article: Development of a Medical AI Ethics Education Module Reflecting AI Competency Framework for Medical Students
Development of a Medical AI Ethics Education Module Reflecting AI Competency Framework for Medical Students Open
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies advance and become increasingly integrated into medicine and healthcare services, there is a growing consensus that it is necessary to prepare medical students to understand and utilize AI in me…
View article: Attitudes and Experiences With Informed Consent for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Korea: A Mixed-Methods Study
Attitudes and Experiences With Informed Consent for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Korea: A Mixed-Methods Study Open
Patients should first be educated on the purpose of IC to prepare them for receiving detailed information about PCI. When they are ready to accept information, strategies suggested by several studies may be applied to improve their underst…
View article: Amendment Proposals for the Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment to Improve End-of-Life Care
Amendment Proposals for the Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment to Improve End-of-Life Care Open
The Act on Hospice and Palliative Care and Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients at the End of Life (ELDA) was passed by the Korean National Assembly in 2016 and came into effect in 2018. Although the stated purpose of the ac…
View article: THE PREVALENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF UNREPRESENTED ADULTS ADMITTED TO KOREAN HOSPITAL SETTINGS
THE PREVALENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF UNREPRESENTED ADULTS ADMITTED TO KOREAN HOSPITAL SETTINGS Open
BACKGROUND Unrepresented adults refer to persons who have lost their decision-making capacity and have neither available surrogates to make medical decisions for them nor the documentation of their treatment preferences. Recently, concerns…
View article: DECISION MAKING ABOUT LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT FOR UNREPRESENTED ADULTS IN KOREAN HOSPITALS
DECISION MAKING ABOUT LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT FOR UNREPRESENTED ADULTS IN KOREAN HOSPITALS Open
BACKGROUND In South Korea, unrepresented adults are individuals who lack decision-making capacity, written treatment preferences, and available immediate family. Since the enactment of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decision Act in 2018, et…
View article: Ethical Principles and Considerations concerning the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare*
Ethical Principles and Considerations concerning the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare* Open
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare settings has become increasingly common. Many hope that AI will remove constraints on human and material resources and bring innovations in diagnosis and treatment. However, the deep le…
View article: Public perceptions and attitudes of the national project of bio-big data: A nationwide survey in the Republic of Korea
Public perceptions and attitudes of the national project of bio-big data: A nationwide survey in the Republic of Korea Open
Background: The National Project of Bio-Big Data (NPBBD) is a South Korean bio-big data collection project, expected to include health, genomic, and lifelog data of one million Koreans. The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications study is …
View article: South Korea’s End-of-Life Care Decisions Act: Law for Better End-of-Life Care
South Korea’s End-of-Life Care Decisions Act: Law for Better End-of-Life Care Open
Despite a broad consensus that terminally ill patients should be empowered to choose and deny life-sustaining-treatments (LSTs), South Korea's path towards the regulation of advance directives was not easy. In this chapter, I sketch the de…
View article: Comparison of Concept about Good Death and View of Life and Death among Japanese, Korean, and American at COVID-19
Comparison of Concept about Good Death and View of Life and Death among Japanese, Korean, and American at COVID-19 Open
From 2020 to 2022 the Covid-19 was spread and many people died. Death is near to everyone. The aim of the study was to investigate differences of concept of good death and view of life and death cross cultural. Participants were 92 Japanes…
View article: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research in South Korea
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research in South Korea Open
Ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) research was introduced in the 1990s as part of an effort to carry out responsible research in human genetics and genomics. Since then it has become a common practice associated with large-sca…
View article: Factors Associated with Advance Directives Documentation: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey of Older Adults in Korea
Factors Associated with Advance Directives Documentation: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey of Older Adults in Korea Open
Advance directives (ADs) can support autonomy in making healthcare decisions and minimize unnecessary discomfort during the treatment process at the end of life (EOL). This study aimed to investigate the factors that influence AD documenta…
View article: An investigation of ethical conflict, ethical competency and educational needs for the organ transplant coordinators
An investigation of ethical conflict, ethical competency and educational needs for the organ transplant coordinators Open
Background: It is a descriptive research study attempted to revitalize ethical education to reduce ethical conflicts and improve ethical competencies by identifying the ethical conflict, competency, job satisfaction, turnover intention, an…
View article: Genetic discrimination: introducing the Asian perspective to the debate
Genetic discrimination: introducing the Asian perspective to the debate Open
Our article aims to provide a comprehensive portrayal of how seven Asian jurisdictions have sought to address the challenge of genetic discrimination (GD) by presenting an analysis of the relevant legislation, policies, and practices. Base…
View article: Characteristics of life-sustaining treatment decisions: National data analysis in South Korea
Characteristics of life-sustaining treatment decisions: National data analysis in South Korea Open
Although the Act on Decisions on Life-sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life was implemented in South Korea in 2018 to ensure the dignity of death for patients, adequate data are not availabl…
View article: Institutional Ethics Committees for Decisions on Life-sustaining Treatment in Korea: Their Current State and Experiences with their Operation*,**
Institutional Ethics Committees for Decisions on Life-sustaining Treatment in Korea: Their Current State and Experiences with their Operation*,** Open
Institutional Ethics Committees are responsible for reviewing, consulting, and educating about matters related to life-sustaining treatment, these committees should play a substantial role in implementing the Act in each hospital. However,…
View article: A Proposal for a Research Ethics Advisory Service as a System Suitable for a Changing Research Environment
A Proposal for a Research Ethics Advisory Service as a System Suitable for a Changing Research Environment Open
As biomedical research becomes more interdisciplinary and subjects more diversified, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the ethics of biomedical research. Conventional research ethics is based on the oversight of institutional revie…
View article: Is it possible to improve the decision-making for mentally incapacitated patients? : A case for Independent Patient Advocacy
Is it possible to improve the decision-making for mentally incapacitated patients? : A case for Independent Patient Advocacy Open
In Korea, there is a legal equipment to ensure the right of the mentally incapacitated adult and to help them to make their own decision on their affairs and medical treatment through civil law. And the law on hospice relief medical care a…