Medical ethics education: Where are we? Where should we be going? A review

Academic Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1143-1152

  Eckles, Rachael E ^a,b   Meslin, Eric M ^c,d   Gaffney, Margaret ^c,e,f   Helft, Paul R ^a,c,d  

^a Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics   (United States)

^b Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis   (United States)

^c Indiana University   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e School of Liberal Arts ^*  (United States)

^f Indiana Healthcare Ethics Network   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; TEACHING; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GOALS; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644838802     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200512000-00020     Document Type: Review

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