A code of ethics is used by individuals to justify their actions within an environment. Medical
professionals require a keen understanding of specific ethical codes due to the potential …

Increasingly, medical students are required to face up to ethical issues in their training and
practice. At the same time, there is growing interest in philosophy courses in the ethical …

Purpose The authors' primary goal was to provide a comprehensive and current review of
the literature surrounding ethics education for medical students. Following this review, the …

WISTITIT ues, attitudes, and behavior. Current areas of consensus in the field are then
explored. Finally, the authors iden-tify three incipient trends in medical ethics education …

Teaching medical ethics and law has become much more prominent in medical student
education, largely as a result of a 1998 consensus statement on such teaching. Ethics is …

Formal training in clinical ethics must become a central part of residency curricula to prepare
practitioners to manage the ethical dimensions of patient care. Residency educators must …

It is increasingly agreed that ethics has a place in undergraduate medical education. There
is, however, debate about how it should be taught, and by whom. We present our …

Objectives: To characterise UK undergraduate medical ethics curricula and to identify
opportunities and threats to teaching and learning. Design: Postal questionnaire survey of …

The formal teaching of medical ethics is a recent addition to the curricula of US medical
schools. In this paper, the author examines the evolution and goals of teaching medical …

It is time for the noon conference. Your job is to impart a career-changing experience in
ethics to a group of students and interns gathered from four different schools with varying …