Abstract
A cross-sectional study explored the moral judgement competence and moral attitudes of 310 Czech and Slovak and 70 foreingn national sudents at the Medical Faculty of Charles University in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Lind's Moral Judgement Test was used to evaluate moral judgement competence and morral attidudes depending on factors such as age, number of semesters of study, sex, nationality and religion.
Moral judgement competence decreased significantly in the Czech and Slovak medical students as they grew oder; in medical students from other countries it did not significantly incerease. The influence of other factors (sex, nationality and religion) on moral judgement competence was not proven in either the Czech and Slovak or the foreign national medical. students.