Alpert Medical School Teaches Clinical Ethics

摘要

There are as many methods of teaching medical ethics asthere are of doing medical ethics. Despite some degree ofstandardization across other disciplines within the scienceof medicine both in the material to be taught and themethods of teaching (pedagogy), clinical ethics education islargely a “home-grown” product in most medical schools.National organizations like the American Society of Bioethicsand Humanities have ethics education interest groupsbut have not developed formal curricula in these areas.Within the house of Medicine, similarly, professional organizationshave published ethics guidelines and manuals butthese are usually specialty or sub-specialty specific with littleattempt or success in identifying and publishing commonstandards or methods of imparting these professionalethics to students.