Almost all articles on education in medical ethics present proposals for or describe experiences of teaching students in different health professions. Since experienced staff also need such education, ...

The apartheid ideology in South Africa had a pervasive influence on all levels of education including medical undergraduate training. The role of the health sector in human rights abuses during the ...

Holland Kaplan, MD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Section of General Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this Q&A with ...

Decisions in contemporary medicine can be complex and overwhelming. An ethics consultation service helps patients and doctors navigate value-laden conflict and uncertainty and helps determine which ...

In a recent First Opinion, David Rothman spotlights the challenge of teaching professionalism in today’s medical schools. As president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession, Rothman brings a ...

Medical students are taught early in medical school that medicine is about listening. Listen to symptoms. Listen to stories. Listen to pain. But in the current opioid abuse crisis, many future doctors ...

PESHAWAR, July 27 The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has planned to start classes of ethics in primary schools and medical colleges to produce good doctors, officials say. “We are also ...

If you are to read one opinion essay prompted by recent events in Ukraine and Israel, I’d recommend a piece by the bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emanuel entitled “Hamas and the Moral Failure of Our ...

Did Nazi-era physicians study medical ethics? Does the concept of medical ethics exist independently of political systems? These were the questions driving Dr. Florian Bruns of Charité - ...

Saint Louis University School of Medicine’s Continuing Medical Education (CME) program provides high-quality, unbiased educational activities based on the best evidence available to help participants ...

Stating that the medical field needs to adopt ‘wellness instead of illness’ as its concept, Union Home and Cooperation ...