Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers’ agitation continues, at great personal cost, to prompt major intrainstitutional and public inquiries that reveal problems with the application of medical ethics at particular clinical ‘‘coalfaces’’. Virtue ethics, emphasising techniques promoting ...

Background: Observance of professional ethics by teachers and educators plays a very important role in creating a favorable ethical climate in the educational environment. Teachers' professional ethics have been discussed from numerous philosophical perspectives. In the meantime, one of the philosophers of existentialism who is particularly concerned with the issue of ethics in the human world ...

Background: Professional ethics is one of the fundamental issues of all human societies. Each organizational set has ethical codes appropriate to the structure of its profession, which is called professional ethics. Familiarity with ethical standards and their application by employees plays an important role in the moral and professional excellence of the organization. In this regard, the purpo...

OBJECTIVE This study determined occupational therapists' perceptions of the following facets of intervention planning: economics, ethics, independent professional judgment, and evidence-based practice. METHOD A cross-sectional survey of 142 occupational therapists who provide short-term rehabilitation in five northeastern states was undertaken. RESULTS Most occupational therapists (n = 137,...