BACKGROUND Understanding what staff surgeons think surgical trainees should learn and the ethical issues that trainees need to manage can strengthen surgical ethics education. METHODS Participants were recruited from the 15 surgical specialty and subspecialty programs at the University of Toronto. Semistructured interviews and focus groups were conducted with 13 ethics coordinators from the s...

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 field of bioethics has been split into subspecialties over the past few decades. In some cases, it was divided in terms of social domains, such as clinical ethics, research ethics and public-health ethics. In other cases, it was separated in terms of methodological approaches, including principle-based bioethics, virtue ethics and narrative ethics. Yet more divisions were made in terms of m...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 S.P. van Rysewyk and M. Pontier (eds.), Machine Medical Ethics, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 74, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_2 Abstract Machine medical ethics is a novel field of research for ethicists, philosophers, artificial intelligence experts, information scientists, and medical s pecialists. I ...

for a PhD as a junior doctor in the 1960s. His consultant replied, in an incredulous tone, “You can’t study medical ethics!” The main danger of the osmosis theory is that it can perpetuate bad habits, carefully developed over years of unethical conduct. Another possibility, equally uncharitable, is that the decision makers in the surgical community, whose own training perhaps contained little e...

T article by Dr. Mark Bernstein (on pages 329–332) identifies an essential framework to assess the bioethical integrity of clinical research. This sets new standards for investigators who aspire to develop effective clinical trials in surgery. Moreover, this excellent outline challenges us to introduce some novel strategies to prepare surgical investigators for rigorous ethical scrutiny of clin...