The Catholic Teaching Hospital: ethics education enhances skills of doctors in training.

He might, however, have opined that although the law says it is the wife, as long as he documents that in light of the years of separation and attempt to divorce on the part of the wife, he can allow the girlfriend to decide. Both responses answer the question, and both are defensible even if contrary to each other. In our paradigm for graduate medical education, neither is satisfactory by itself because neither gives the resident the tools needed to be more than a medical technician who executes decisions made by surrogates. As we phrase it, simply giving a recommendation does not give the resident the ethics competencies needed to be a professional. That, we believe, is the fundamental purpose of ethics education in a teaching hospital. The goal and purpose of a teaching hospital, such as those within Providence Health & Services in Oregon, is to be that place “where medical knowledge continuously evolves and new cures and treatments are found. They are where critical community services, such as trauma and burn Ethics Education Enhances Skills Of Doctors in Training