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Teaching of medical ethics: implications for an integrated curriculum
Author(s) -
Parker M H,
Price D A,
Harris P G
Publication year - 1997
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.1365-2923.1997.tb02563.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , medical education , context (archaeology) , medical ethics , integrated curriculum , graduate students , baseline (sea) , psychology , engineering ethics , medicine , pedagogy , engineering , political science , paleontology , psychiatry , law , biology
SUMMARY This paper reports on an investigation into the teaching of medical ethics and related areas in the medical undergraduate course at the University of Queensland. The project was designed in the context of a major curriculum change to replace the current 6 year course by an integrated, problem‐based, 4 year graduate medical course, which began in 1997. A survey of clinical students, observations of clinical teaching sessions, and interviews with clinical teachers were conducted. Data obtained have contributed to curriculum development and will provide a baseline for comparison and evaluation of the graduate course in this field. A view of integrated ethics teaching is advanced in the light of the data obtained.