A fundamental part of being a physician or researcher is the concept of bioethics. It is the first thing to consider as we, medical students, will work on the human body with their single lives. In preparation of doing so, medical students are expected to have enough information and common ground of bioethics.
PREBIOTHICS 3.0 (SCOPExSCORE BIOETHICS DAY) was held in commemoration of World Bioethics Day. This year, we encouraged medical students to actively contribute to our sequence of activities: social media campaign, public discussion, and public poster competition. We kicked off this year’s PREBIOTHICS 3.0 by opening registration for college students of any background with an interest in bioethics to record a video with a concept called “Middle Ground”. The campaign set out a space to talk and to listen to volunteers’ arguments on the given prompt with no judgement. So that the discussion became interactive, we selected volunteers with not-so-exact perspectives to each other. On 16th October 2022, the video was taken offline with four volunteers signed on a written informed consent statement beforehand. The video had been airing on Youtube since November 6th, 2022.
In our public discussion, we divided participants into several breakout rooms to have a focus group discussion. In each room, there were moderators to lead the participants to share their opinions on eight questions. After 60 minutes, we got back to the main room and listened to three spectacular speakers, Nabila Puspakesuma, S.Psi, M.Sc of CBMH FK-KMK UGM, Prof. Dr. Rianto Setiabudy, Sp.FK(K), President of the Governing Board of MKEK IDI, and Prof. Eryati Darwin, PA(K)., Lecturer of Faculty of Medicine FK Unand, Member of MKEK IDI Wilayah Sumatera Barat. As a professional in their field, we got a lot more knowledge than we thought we would throughout their presentations. We learned The Impact of Technology Advancement to Bioethics and Humanities, Research Ethics of Vulnerable People, and Future Innovation of Technology and Healthcare and Its’ Bioethical Issues, respectively. Through the presentation and discussion session, all participants actively listened and discussed with our experts.
To close PREBIOTHICS 3.0, we held a public poster competition with nation-wide participants judged by linguists and professionals on aesthetics and bioethics.
We hope our PREBIOTHICS 3.0 will positively impact our audiences and throughout future improvements to be done, we can reach a wider audience.