The British Medical Association (BMA) has called upon the General Medical Council (GMC) to instruct all medical schools to provide identifiable and substantial courses on medical ethics in their undergraduate curricula. The author reviews a postgraduate scheme of study in the ethics of health-care and suggests that it could provide some useful guidelines for teaching the subject at the undergra...

Conferring a professional degree on a person implies that the person awarded that degree, through his or her education as a student, has attained certain levels of understanding and competency in defined areas of knowledge. A professional degree also implies that the person is qualified to seek a higher level of education, be that a residency training program in medicine, dentistry, or veterina...