The need to integrate ethics into professional life, from the grassroots up, has been recognized, and a comprehensive ethics program has been proposed as a model. The model includes the four dimensions of: consensus building, ethics guidelines development and review, education, and implementation. The activities of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) are presented as...

The first code of professional ethics must: (1) be a code of ethics; (2) apply to members of a profession; (3) apply to all members of that profession; and (4) apply only to members of that profession. The value of these criteria depends on how we define "code", "ethics", and "profession", terms the literature on professions has defined in many ways. This paper applies one set of definitions of...

Introduction: Professional ethics is a very important issue for managerswho are role models for students and staff. It can also be very effective in organizational activities. The main objective of this research is to describe the result of managers’ self assessment in Shiraz teaching hospitals.Methods: The present research is a cross-sectional study. The statistical society of this research in...

Background: Lifestyle is a very important concept that is often used to express lifestyle. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between "lifestyle" and "professional ethics" of teachers. Method: The present study was conducted by descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population includes all primary school teachers in Noorabad (N=394), which through Morgan table,...

Professional and accreditation organizations have endorsed medical ethics as a fundamental component of education for family medicine trainees. Yet various obstacles combine to work against the continuation of formal medical ethics education beyond medical school and into residency training. This article reviews the current consensus on the scope and objectives of medical ethics education in th...