Which questions about programs’ nonhuman animal use should medical students ask during residency interviews?
摘要
Medical students have unique opportunities to develop their personal and professional character during residency. Part of characterological development for some trainees can include voicing their concerns during residency interviews about institutions’ uses of nonhuman animals in simulation training. Asking potentially awkward and challenging questions about nonhuman animal use during residency interviews can be construed as advocacy, since it signals a shift in prospective residents’ concern about how their education shapes who they are as persons and clinicians. Interviews can be seen as opportunities to prompt some institutions to reevaluate their curriculum and what it says about the character of those institutions.