Proposta de um código de ética para o corpo discente dos cursos de graduação do Centro de Ciências da Saúde – CCS/Ufes

Abstract

As demands and social relations were affected by current changes, mainly globalization and technological evolution, leading to a reanalysis of concepts and ethical practices that govern such coexistence. Consequently, there was a need to readjust the process of training health professionals, making the university concerned with awakening in students the relevance of ethics in their training and in their future professional practice. In this context, the problem would be to identify the fundamental contents for the elaboration of this students' code of ethics, as well as to discover how to make them aware of the importance of ethics for a more complete and humanized professional training. Thus, the presence of the student code of ethics as an ally in this dynamic is justified, as it is a tool that guides behavior, offering norms and moral values for the development of a professional future, whose practice values the well-being, respect and zeal to your patient. The present research has as general objective to elaborate a proposal of code of ethics for the student body of the eight graduation courses of the Center of Health Sciences (CCS) of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES). It presents as specific objectives the identification of the essential elements nowadays for an ethical conduct of health professionals and the understanding of how ethics is approached in the didactic development of undergraduate courses at this teaching center. Such research was approved by the Ethics Committee on Research with Human Beings of the CCS (CAAE: 26463119.2.0000.5060) and adopted as methods and procedures the qualitative research, whose instrument of data collection became the interview via e-mail, due to the isolation promoted by the Coronavirus pandemic, whose questionnaire was sent to the email addresses of the research subjects, teachers and students of the eight undergraduate courses at CCS / UFES. The collected data were treated with the selection of the fragments of texts most representative of the responses and respective analysis of the content, which revealed the importance of both ethics as support for the professional training of undergraduates, as well as the existence of the student code of ethics as a driver of behaviors and conduct during their stay in the academic environment. The result showed the relevance of such a subject both to the academic community, as it is a significant behavioral guiding instrument, which favors coexistence, the learning process and the awareness of the responsibility and consequence of the students' actions, as to the society that receives a more professional prepared, capable of a more humanitarian action and committed to the well-being of the population. As a result of this research, a technical/technological product was developed within Research Line 2 “Technology, innovations and operations in the public sector”, within the Structuring Project 3- Finalistic actions and programs and support to the government, configured as Technical Services- “Preparation of draft standards or regulatory framework changes”, in this case, “Code of Ethics for the student body of the eight undergraduate courses at the Health Sciences Center (CCS) at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES)