The ethics of medical education.

it will also provide generalisable findings for the wider medical education community. It will require the construction of tracking databases and associated research designs. Such work is not necessarily new and has been successfully applied at single institutions. However, it has the potential to provide more powerful findings if conducted collaboratively, with medical schools combining data on different approaches and their outcomes. The Australian medical schools have laid the foundations for such an approach though the Committee of Deans Medical School Outcomes Database Project. It remains to be seen whether it and future projects involving other innovative schools can provide the research evidence that Murray, for example, suggests can be generated in this time of change in medical education.