PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the necessity for research ethics and learning objectives in ethics education at the undergraduate level. METHODS A total of 393 fourth-year students, selected from nine medical schools, participated in a survey about learning achievement and the necessity for it. RESULTS It was found that the students had very few chances to receive systematic education ...

For many years educational programs have dealt with ethics. However, can ethics be taught? Secondly, how should it be taught? The notion that ethics is a process of communication that gives way to new understandings and commitments to our social life has been utilized herein to explore several questions. Should ethics teaching be via standalone modules or embedded in ethics discussion within cu...

Several theories, both ancient and recent, suggest that having the time to contemplate a decision should increase moral awareness and the likelihood of ethical choices. Our findings indicated just the opposite: greater time for deliberation led to less ethical decisions. Post-hoc analyses and a followup experiment suggested that decision-makers act as if their previous choices have created or l...

The moral ambit understood in the generic sense, as that which is opposed to the amoral has an identical extension to that of the ambit of freedom. Private life as well as professional, economic, and political life are equally moral realities. Together with personal ethics there also exist professional ethics, economic ethics, social ethics, and political ethics. Here, we will not discuss the d...

This paper discusses the importance of Richard M. Zaner's work on clinical ethics for answering the question: what kind of doing is ethics consultation? The paper argues first, that four common approaches to clinical ethics -- applied ethics, casuistry, principlism, and conflict resolution cannot adequately address the nature of the activity that makes up clinical ethics; second, that understan...

Ethics consultation in institutions of the healthcare system has been given a standard form based on three pillars: education, the development of guidelines and concrete ethics consultation in case conferences. The spread of ethics committees, which perform these tasks on an organizational level, is a remarkable historic achievement. At the same time it cannot be denied that modern ethics consu...