For over three decades, there has been an increasingly valuable discussion of the ways and
means through which humanities education (with an emphasis on ethics) can be introduced …

Medicine and ethics have an historic and rich relationship dating back to the fourth century
and the work of Greek physician Hippocrates, and later the work of Galen, who cautioned …

Ethics teaching at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine began when the
medical school accepted its first students in 1967. The ethics program co-evolved with the …

Efforts to reform medical education have emphasized the need to formalize instruction in
medical ethics. However, the discipline of medical ethics is still searching for an acceptable …

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 …

The author describes the comparative dearth of scholarship and literature on medical ethics
in 1972 when he began designing an elective lecture-discussion course at the School of …

Abstract This article—the Romanell Report—offers an analysis of the current state of medical
ethics education in the United States, focusing in particular on its essential role in cultivating …

In this review article we describe the current scope, methods, and contents of medical ethics
education in medical schools in Western English speaking countries (mainly the United …

Background It will be useful to begin by briefly setting the course within the larger context of
the Ethics in the Core Curriculum effort. The course reflected several key assumptions and …