Teaching medical ethics and law within medical education: a model for the UK core curriculum

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A curriculum for teaching ethics and law in medical schools has been developed based on the standards of the UK's General Medical Council. The curriculum emphasizes the links between ethics and law in medicine as well as the overall objectives of medical education. Topics in the curriculum include informed consent and refusal of treatment, confidentiality and good clinical practice, medical research and human reproduction.

Standards, Curricula, Law, Ethics, Medical colleges, Medical schools, General Medical Council, Law and ethics

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Medical ethics, teaching and the new genetics

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A modified course in genetics which features patient-led classroom discussions is the perfect vehicle for teaching ethics to medical undergraduates. Such classroom discussions of ethics provide a venue wherein health care professionals interact with patients and their problems. Teaching ethics through the problems and solutions offered by genetics also emphasizes the unity of science, medicine and humanism.

Editorial, Human genetics

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Teaching ethics to medical students

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A dilemma exists when it comes to teaching moral and ethical issues to medical students. The number of ethical issues are rising through advances in medicine while there is a constant pressure from the General Medical Council to reduce the syllabus. The need is not to teach medical ethics as a separate subject but to develop it in context to an extent that it becomes a part of thinking.

Medical students, Education

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