Background: History of medical ethics shows a great attention toward morality and ethical behavior in practice of Iranian physicians. Traditional medical ethics with its conventional methods of teaching have been included in medical education by Iranian physicians over centuries. However, modern academic methods of medical education have also been introduced in medical schools. We aim to summar...

There has never been much doubt that medical ethics in Dunstan's sense of 'the obligations of a moral nature which govern the practice of medicine' (1) has been an important part of medical education for at least two and a half thousand years. But in a second sense of medical ethics-philosophical or critical medical ethics (2)-the subject is very much a newcomer to medical curricula, with the p...

Many senior doctors have had little in the way of formal ethics training, but express considerable interest in extending their education in this area. This paper is the report of an initiative in continuing medical education in which doctors were introduced to narrative ethics. We review the theoretical basis of narrative ethics, and the structure of and response to the two-day workshop.

Section A of "The core curriculum model for pharmacy education" (2002)- "Learning about Humanism"- outlines the educational contents for ethics in pharmaceutical departments. People who read this section are likely to conclude that the cultivation of human sensitivity is of prime importance in ethics education in pharmacy. However, if a pharmacist found herself or himself on the horns of a mora...

In modern society the amount of daily information has been continuously and rapidly increasing with various new and improved mechanisms for finding, collecting and producing information. A problem with this trend is that it does not necessarily mean the improvement in information quality. A more serious problem is the unethical use of communications. It is expected in communication, to have pos...

The purpose of this study was to gather and analyze information about the status of ethics teaching and learning in U.S. dental schools and to recommend a curriculum development and research agenda for professional ethics in dental education. A survey to collect this information was developed by the authors and administered by the American Society for Dental Ethics. The results suggest that den...

From 1995-2006, I was Project Director of a collaborative effort of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics for a project, Graduate Research Ethics Education (GREE) funded by the National Science Foundation (Grants # SES-9817880 and SBR 9241897) to teach research ethics to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the physical and natural sciences, social sciences and engineer...

ethics has become the bridge between morals, values, patient needs and effective treatment. medical ethics has a 2500 year history in medical education, but  it has only been in the last 30 years that it has come to terms of formal inclusion in medical curricula(1) .the purpose of contemporary dental education is that graduates will be competent in clinic and patient care with high level of  kn...