Medical Education 2010: 44: 864–873 Objectives Ethical reasoning in medicine is not well
understood and medical educators often find it difficult to justify what and how they teach …

Context The assessment of ethical problem solving in medicine has been controversial and
challenging. The purposes of this study were:(i) to create a new instrument to measure …

Ethics has been defined as a systematic study of and reflection on morality. Systematic,
because it is a discipline that uses special methods and approaches to examine moral …

Clinical ethical reasoning and analysis are skills as central to good patient care as the
efficient application of biomedical knowledge to diagnosis and prognosis. However …

Objective: Contemporary healthcare requires physicians to have well developed ethical
judgment skills in addition to excellent clinical skills. However, no consensus has been …

Purpose: We conducted an international, interdisciplinary teach-the-teacher course to
sensitize physicians from different countries to ethical issues in medical education. The …

This study assessed the hypothesis that the formal teaching of medical ethics promotes a
significant increase in the growth and development of moral reasoning in medical students …

Despite the dramatic increase over recent years in the research and teaching of medical
ethics, there exists no theoretical framework within which to conceptualize ethical problems …

Ethics education is widely accepted as a fundamental component of health care
professionals' personal and professional development (Goldie 2000). Universities must be …

Background: Ethical analysis frameworks can help to identify the ethical dimensions to
clinical care and provide a method for justifying clinical decisions. Published frameworks …