MEDEIROS, F. F.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8476301567896309; MEDEIROS, Fabíola Franklin de.
Abstract:
This work aimed to evaluate the perception that students and researchers of the
Medical School's Center for Veterinary Health and Technology Rural Federal
University of Campina Grande (UFCG) have on bioethics, and to evaluate the
systematic work of the Ethics Committee (CEP). We applied a questionnaire with open
and closed questions to obtain data. The sample comprised 30% of (the) student (s) of
each group studied (1, 5 and 10 periods of the semester 10.2) of the course. We
conducted semi-structured interview with the president of the Ethics Research Center
researchers and 30% of the course. It was found that medical researchers and students of
veterinary medicine veterinary medical ethics and bioethics consider extremely
important, despite evidence of low interest and knowledge update. The lack of
knowledge by researchers of Law No. 11.794 (procedures for scientific use of animals),
reference for any research involving animals. As for the CEP of the CSTR / UFCG,
there is a lack of knowledge of its existence by the population of the CSTR, requiring
greater disclosure of the same importance as well as the submission of research to it,
remembering that the committee should have as order to meet the ethical uncertainties
or resolve conflicts and not a disciplinary action. A tighter integration between the
coordination of Veterinary Medicine and the researchers on the discussion of teaching
bioethics, because when you insert the teaching of animal welfare in their curricula,
universities increase the adequacy of its graduates to the current job market and
contribute to an improvement in the ethics of human-animal relationship.