Ethics Education for Canadian Medical Students

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

Keywords

Ethics, Education, Canada, Medical Students, Medical School, Research Survey

Abstract

This study was designed to determine the nature, extent and quality of medical ethics education for students in Canadian medical schools. In 1989, a questionnaire that used primarily open-ended questions was sent to all 16 Canadian medical schools; they all responded. Significant findings include the following: 15 of the 16 schools provided some ethics education (with wide-ranging objectives); the time allotted for such instruction ranged from ten and a half hours to 45 hours (per degree, not per year), with no discernible pattern in the distribution of hours across the years; most teaching was case-based and issue-oriented; most instructors were physicians; and almost all the schools conducted assessments of students using a pass-fail standard.

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