Teaching medical ethics: Ljubljana school of medicine, Yugoslavia.

Editor's note This paper was first presented at the 15th International Medical-Legal Seminar held in Ljubljana in June 1979. Drs Milivinski and Strazis'car give some background to the development of teaching medical ethics in the school of medicine and show how gradually medical ethics has been assimilated into the programme of training for medical students. Dentists and phartnacists are presently in the initial stages ofincorporating ethical topics into the training of their students. The authors conclude that with these positive steps being taken towards havingformal courses in medical ethics their physicians will have a good knowledge ofethicalprinciples on which to base their decisions in difficult or delicate