醫學生之靈性教育探研

Probing the Medical Education in Spirituality Students

賴明亮(Ming-Liang Lai) ； 方俊凱(Chun-Kai Fang) ； 李佩怡(Pei-Yi Li) ； 林明慧(Ming-Hwai Lin)

《安寧療護雜誌》 12卷4期 (2007/11) Pp. 395-407

https://doi.org/10.6537/TJHPC.2007.12(4).3

摘要

本文述明靈性教育在醫學教育之重要性。經由文獻回顧，建立靈性，靈性需求，靈性照顧之操作定義，以爲爾後架構醫學生靈性教育課程之基礎。文中並整理國內外之靈性教育之現況，並提供有關評估工具之出處，以提供有心人士之參考。作者建議採用靈性定義爲「個人對生命最終價值所堅持的信念或信仰」。當這種貫穿個人整體，統合並超越個人生物、心理、社會內涵之生命原則受到干擾時而產生的靈性困擾，應受到重視及照顧。基督宗教之「天人物我」和佛教的「苦集滅道」，則是宗教和靈性交集之極佳詮釋。培養醫學生這方面能力之靈性教育，應是醫學教育不可忽視之一環。

關鍵字

安寧療護 ； 醫學教育 ； 靈性 ； 靈性教育 ； 宗教

並列摘要

This review article points out the importance of cultivation about spirituality for medical students in their undergraduate education. The authors tried to formulate a solid foundation for curriculum of spiritual education through reviewing and analyzing the core meaning of spirituality, spiritual need, and spiritual care. It is also the purpose of this article to provide a whole picture of current spiritual education at our country and around the world.
The authors suggest to define ”spirituality” as ”dimension of a person that is concerned with ultimate ends and values”. The ”spiritual stress” can be thus defined as ”disruption in the life principles that pervades a person's entire being and that integrate and transcend one's biological and psychological nature”. The religious aspects of spirituality can be practiced in both western and eastern way. It is paramount important that to incorporate spiritual education into medical students' curriculum.

並列關鍵字

Hospice ； Medical education ； Spirituality ； Religion ； Spiritual education