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THE MORAL ETHOS OF MEDICAL EDUCATION
Author(s) -
BRYANT JOHN H.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1994.tb02755.x
Subject(s) - ethos , medical ethics , engineering ethics , field (mathematics) , sociocultural evolution , nursing ethics , sociology , environmental ethics , political science , law , philosophy , engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics
Summary The moral ethos of medial education refers to the fundamental values that pervade the field of medical education. There has been a dramatic expansion of both interest and activities related to the broad field of biomedical ethics, due largely to the sociocultural forces that have emerged as powerful influences during the last generation. In considering the ways in which ethics appears in medical education, it is necessary to consider first how it appears in the world of medicine. Dr Edmund Pellegrino provides us with a philosophy of medicine that is a thoughtful starting point for ethics in medicine. We then proceed to consider the field of clinical ethics, the place of ethics in the care of communities or populations, how these fields appear in medical education, and finally how these issues might relate to the ethical development of academic medical centres.