The assessment of decision-making capacity is an essential element of competency determinations. As experts in the assessment of human cognitive abilities, neuropsychologists may be the best adjudicators of competency. However, to maximize the contribution of neuropsychology to the courts in the determination of competency, clinicians must be aware of the professional controversies and ethical ...

we are writing this letter to draw the attention of the faculty members of medical universities to the formation of professional ethics and professionalism in the clinical and theoretical education of nursing and operating room students using the hidden curriculum. professional values are standards for clinical practice, which are based on the agreement of professional groups and experts. these...

This article reviews studies examining the effect of professional education on ethical development. Most studies limit assessment to the measurement of moral judgement, observing that moral judgement plateaus during professional school unless an ethics intervention is present. Whereas interventions influence the shift to postconventional reasoning (the DIT P score), a more illuminating picture ...

We performed a comparative analysis of the codes of ethics of three official organizations in Dentistry professional ethics: Code of Ethics for Dentists in the European Union, drawn up by the Council of European Dentists (CED); Código Español de Ética y Deontología Dental, published by the Consejo General de Colegios de Odontólogos y Estomatólogos de España (CGCOE); and Principles of Ethics and...

A decade after physicians (including psychiatrists) endorsed the shift toward evidence-based medicine, the world’s largest association of psychologists, the American Psychological Association (APA), belatedly but officially embraced the tenets of evidence-based practice (EBP) [American Psychological Association (APA), 2006]. Other clinical psychology associations, including the Canadian Psychol...

advancements in different field of medicine have given rise to complex ethical dilemmas in clinical practice. the more the clinicians are sensitized to ethical problems and familiar with ethical decision-making, the more they can value professionalism in their practice. the current paper is designed to emphasize physicians to think ethically in the field of internal medicine and endocrinology. ...

Recent attention to accountants’ ethics in the news, in professional practice, and by academia leads to questions about the ethical and cognitive characterization of students selecting accounting careers. We employ the Myers/Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for assessing cognitive styles, and the Defining Issues Test (DIT) for assessing ethical reasoning to study differences between two groups of a...

In the first part of this two part glossary, we introduced fundamental—so called “technical”—terms used in both clinical bioethics and public health ethics. Though there may be variations in emphasis or connotation across different disciplines, we believe the definitions provided there can be understood by people working from a broad range of perspectives. In the present installment we turn our...

1 Harold P.E. Stern, University of Alabama, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PO Box 870286, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 [email protected] 2 Russell L. Pimmel, University of Alabama, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PO Box 870286, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 [email protected] Abstract  This paper describes a short (3 class-hour) module developed to teach engineeri...

All psychologists must uphold the same ethical standards about confidentiality even though each state imposes different legal limits on their ability to protect clients' confidences. The resulting ethical-legal confusion is exacerbated by legally based confidentiality training that treats legal exceptions as if they were the rule and fosters the impression that attorneys are now the only real e...