Medical ethics and law as a core subject in medical education

Teaching medical ethics and law within medical education: a model for the UK core curriculum.

Ethics and law for medical students: the core curriculum.

Teachers of ethics in UK medical schools have agreed a core curriculum for ethics and law, which is published in this issue of the journal.' When I told a senior professor of medicine in my own clinical school of this consensus statement he gave a look of surprise and then shuddered. I interpret his look as astonishment that a group of medical ethicists can agree about anything. The shudder, I ...

Teaching medical ethics as a practical subject: observations from experience.

The author, head of a teaching hospital surgical unit, argues that the medical curriculum must ensure that all students are exposed to a minimum of ethical discussion and decision-making. In describing his own approach he emphasises the need to show students that it is 'an intensely practical subject'. Moreover, he reminds them that moral dilemmas in medicine--perhaps a better term than medical...

Medical ethics education.

There has never been much doubt that medical ethics in Dunstan's sense of 'the obligations of a moral nature which govern the practice of medicine' (1) has been an important part of medical education for at least two and a half thousand years. But in a second sense of medical ethics-philosophical or critical medical ethics (2)-the subject is very much a newcomer to medical curricula, with the p...

Perspective: Medical education in medical ethics and humanities as the foundation for developing medical professionalism.

Medical education accreditation organizations require medical ethics and humanities education to develop professionalism in medical learners, yet there has never been a comprehensive critical appraisal of medical education in ethics and humanities. The Project to Rebalance and Integrate Medical Education (PRIME) I Workshop, convened in May 2010, undertook the first critical appraisal of the def...