Objective: Ethics in public administration is stated as the total sum of moral values, to which the public administrators must obey. Health services sector, within the scope of public administration, also became one of the areas in which the ethical dilemmas are mostly seen. Hence, this survey has been conducted to develope a statistically valid and reliable scale on the assessment of the aforementioned ethical dilemmas.

Material and Method: After the theoretic base of the study was set up, the questionnaire, which would be used at the analysis stage, was developed and the required data was collected via a research conducted at a public medical faculty. The required data was obtained by using this questionnaire through a survey in a Public Medical Faculty in Turkey. The analysis process was conducted via SPSS 16.0 and Amos 21.0 statistical software programs. The data was examined by using statistical tests as exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and Cronbach Alfa domestic consistency test.

Results: After conducting the validity and reliability tests with multiple variables, the numbers of the questions were decreased from 22 to 13, which were gathered under three factors and statistically reliable and meaningful results were obtained.

Conclusion: It is evaluated that the conducted research is resulted with a scale that can be used for the related surveys, which intend to research the ethical problems at the medical sector and the perceptions of medical faculty students for ethical dilemmas in Turkey, and may provide a positive contribution for the studies of the possible researchers of the field.

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