it has long been a common goal for both medical educators and ethicists to develop effective methods or programs for medical ethics education. the current lecture-based courses of medical ethics programs in medical schools are demonstrated as insufficient models for training “good doctors’’. in this study, we introduce an innovative program for medical ethics education in an extra-curricular st...

The recent series of ethics violations in business (e.g., insider trading) has caused number of firms to begin courses in ethics for employees. Unless professionals improve their ethical practices, legislation will force them to do so. The ACM and DPMA curriculum recommendations include ethics topics. An important Issue is the proper education of IS students to deal with on-the-job ethical situ...

BACKGROUND Bedside rounds have long been a time-honored component of medical education. Recently, there have been various recommendations that residency-training programs further incorporate bedside teaching into clinical curricula. OBJECTIVES To compare these current attitudes regarding bedside education with the position of traditional Jewish law and ethics. METHODS Relevant medical journ...

Medical ethics education, it has been said, has 'come of age' in recent years in terms of its formal inclusion in undergraduate medical curricula. This review article examines the background to its inclusion in undergraduate curricula and goes on to examine the consensus that has arisen on the design of ethics curricula, using Harden's curriculum and S.P.I.C.E.S models as templates. While there...

The goals of medical ethics education comprise several dimensions: legal duties to secure informed consent, tell the truth and protect confidentiality; objective competencies that include an understanding of DNR regulations and surrogate decision-making procedures; discursive moral skills such as moral sensitivity, reciprocity and moral development that combine into the capacity for moral dialo...

Effectively developing professionalism requires a programmatic view on how medical ethics and humanities should be incorporated into an educational continuum that begins in premedical studies, stretches across medical school and residency, and is sustained throughout one's practice. The Project to Rebalance and Integrate Medical Education National Conference on Medical Ethics and Humanities in ...

OBJECTIVES To study knowledge and attitudes of hospital ethics committee members at the first workshop for ethics committees in Croatia. DESIGN Before/after cross-sectional study using a self administered questionnaire. SETTING Educational workshop for members of hospital ethics committees, Zagreb, 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS Knowledge and attitudes of participants before and after th...

Careful reading of imaginative literature teaches an attentiveness fundamental to the care of the sick. Reflecting on the nature of medical ethics more than twenty years ago, moral theologian Paul Ramsey remarked, '... unless we mean to make medical education more literate, indeed more literary, ethics can find no proper place in it...'. Setting aside what he considered some common misconceptio...

To present the basic principles and standards of Ethics in medical research and publishing, as well as the need for continuing education in the principles and ethics in science and publication in biomedicine. An analysis of relevant materials and documents, sources from the published literature. Investing in education of researches and potential researches, already in the level of medical schoo...