It is a matter of concern that medicine all over the world is often practised without proper and strict ethical controls and monitoring. A survey of surgical opinions on ethics in Canada' revealed that even though a general sensitivity for clinical ethics was present amongst the members of the national association of surgeons, there was a lack of formal education and the existence of properly c...

The development of learning, teaching and assessment of medical ethics and law over the last 40 years is reflected upon with particular reference to the roles of the London Medical Group, the Society for the Study of Medical Ethics, its successor Institute of Medical Ethics; the Journal of Medical Ethics and the General Medical Council. Several current issues are addressed. Although the situati...

The ethics of caring, though the subject of much recent discussion by philosophers, has hardly been applied to medical ethics and medical education. Based on receptivity (that is, empathy and compassion) toward and taking responsibility for other persons, the ethics of caring has particular relevance to medicine. Caring guides the physician always to remain the patient's advocate and to maintai...

Ethics should be an important component of physiological education. In this report, we examined to what extent teaching of ethics is formally being incorporated into the physiology curriculum. We carried out an e-mail survey in which we asked the e-mail recipients whether their institution offered a course or lecture on ethics as part of the physiology teaching process at their institution, usi...

In this paper we address some of the fundamental aspects pertaining to the teaching of computer ethics and its significance for the IT profession. The following topics regarding teaching of computer ethics in Computer Science and Information Systems curricula are discussed: • What is computer ethics and why should it be taught? • What topics should be addressed? • How, where and by whom should ...

The main question examined is: How do nurses and other healthcare professionals ensure ethical interprofessional collaboration-in-practice as an everyday practice actuality? Ethical interprofessional collaboration becomes especially relevant and necessary when interprofessional practice decisions are contested. To illustrate, two healthcare scenarios are analyzed through three ethics lenses. Bi...

BACKGROUND Despite the recent increase in activity in the field of medical ethics education, few evaluative studies have been carried out. Most studies have taken place in North America, in curricula where teaching is discipline-based, and have concentrated on outcome rather than on the curricular processes adopted. AIM To evaluate the process of medical ethics education in the first year of ...

E-post: [email protected] Ingrid Miljeteig (born 1975), MD, associate professor of medical ethics, Global Health Priorities research group University of Bergen, special advisor in R&D Bergen Hospital Trust (Helse Bergen). She leads the collaboration in ethics education between the University of Bergen, Bergen Hospital Trust and Addis Ababa University. The author has completed the ICMJE fo...

The purpose of this article is to respond to Dr. Charles Bertolami's article "Why Our Ethics Curricula Don't Work" in the April 2004 issue of the Journal of Dental Education. This article analyzes the arguments put forth by Bertolami and challenges his assumptions and conclusions. Several examples are given of the ways in which our current ethics curricula do, in fact, work.