Developing, Implementing and Evaluating the Model of Professional Ethics Education in Bachelor of Health Information Technology

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ABSTRACT Introduction: Instituting ethics among students and preparing them for professional life on the one hand and applying these ethics in the clinical teaching environment on the other are all the responsibility of a medical university. Purpose:The purpose of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a model of professional ethics education in undergraduate health information technology. Method and Material : This research, until the formulation of the study, The searches are descriptive and the implementation and evaluation stages are interventional. In seven steps: reviewing literature, gathering professional ethics challenges from training centers, conducting focus groups , Develop a questionnaire, validate validity and reliability, developing a model of professional ethics training, implementation and evaluation. Data gathering tool was a researcher-made ethical sensitivity questionnaire based on Lutzen questionnaire in pre- and post-test. Data were analyzed using SPSS 23 software and paired t-test. Result: Three modes have been developed to implement the professional ethics teaching model (independent, compulsory, and integrated).After the model implementation, based on the paired t-test results, pre-training students' moral sensitivity score7/3±0/69 After training,7/9± 0/87 was statistically significant(Pv= 0.001). The best (method, place, semester) educational, student evaluation and professional ethics codes of the field were identified. Conclusion: The results show that the combined training of professional ethics in the internship course based on real scenarios derived from the real environment can be an effective training method in teaching professional ethics .The use of this method as a pilot in the form of a professional ethics training workshop has increased the knowledge and attitude of the students studied.