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“What If It Was Your Dog?” Resource Shortages and Decision-Making in Veterinary Medicine—A Vignette Study with German Veterinary Students
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ID 4665793
Author(s) Persson, Kirsten; Gerdts, Wiebke-Rebekka; Hartnack, Sonja; Kunzmann, Peter
Author(s) at UniBasel Persson, Kirsten
Year 2023
Title “What If It Was Your Dog?” Resource Shortages and Decision-Making in Veterinary Medicine—A Vignette Study with German Veterinary Students
Journal Veterinary Sciences
Volume 10
Number 2
Pages / Article-Number 161
Keywords veterinary ethics; moral reasoning; vignettes; teaching veterinary ethics
Abstract

The here presented vignette study was part of a survey on ethical judgement skills among advanced veterinary students at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation. The vignette describes a fictitious dilemma in veterinary practice due to medication supply shortages. First, the students should make an ethically justified decision: who of the two patients in the waiting room gets the last dosage of a medication. Important factors were the animal patients’ characteristics (age, state of health, life expectancy), the patient owners’ wellbeing, and context-related criteria. Second, the students were asked for decisional changes if one of the patients was their own dog. They reacted in four different ways: (1) for a professional, this should not make a difference; (2) most likely being “egoistic” and preferring their own dog; (3) giving the medication to the other dog; and (4) avoiding a decision. Finally, the students judged a list of possible solutions to the dilemma on a 9-point scale. They preferred patient-related criteria to patient-owner-related criteria in this task. In the overall results, it became obvious that no “gold standard” or guidelines for situations of medication shortages exist, yet, which presents an important subject for future research and veterinary ethics teaching.

ISSN/ISBN 2306-7381
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Digital Object Identifier DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci10020161
   

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