Veterinary Ethics Courses: Are They Effective?

Source: faunalytics

(August 7, 2023) Veterinarians constantly face ethically challenging situations in their jobs. They often have to make difficult moral judgments about how to treat an animal, and the stakes of their decisions may be life-or-death for their patients. Because of this, the European Union has required all veterinary schools’ curricula to include ethics courses since 2005. However, it’s uncertain whether having taken an ethics course causes veterinarians to engage in more thoughtful ethical reasoning about the dilemmas they face...Read more»