Abstract

CORTEZ GORDILLO, Neisa Jacqueline  and  CALANI LAZCANO, Franz. BIOETHICS EDUCATION AIMED AT TRAINING IN ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES IN MEDICINE CAREER. Investig@ UMSA [online]. 2011, vol.2, n.2, pp. 105-114. ISSN 2220-7139.

Human practice of medicine requires ofhuman beings caring forother human beings and not "doctors" who do not understand the soul and spirit of those who is caring, training in Bioethics is now part of the curriculum of most medical schools and Environmental Education is becoming an option forthe training ofexistence values and other axiological principles that can nourish the spirit ofthe future doctor. Explain how an Environmental Education can take existential and axiological values of the student in the Medicine Career, in the university 'Universidad Mayor de San Andrés' (UMSA) La Paz - Bolivia Bioethics in its formation. It has been reviewed literature on the pedagogy of higher education, Bioethics and Environmental Education, forthis essay. Approach has been made of Superior Medical Education, Training and Environmental Education Bioethics. Madding later its articulation on principles that can improve health personnel training. It is essential to include in the training of medical and health personnel and other existential values axiological principles that are able to build them a humanism that would improve the quality ofcare in health services in ourcountry.

Keywords : Environmental education; humanism; medical education; medical career; training bioethics.