Practical tips for teaching ethics and humanism to medical students.

ABSTRACT: This article presents the results of a decade's experiment in creating a longitudinal ethics and humanism curriculum for the core clinical year at UNC School of Medicine, North Carolina, United States. This curriculum applies published research on best practices in medical ethics education. Sample comments from course evaluations of the students who have completed this curriculum provide support for its success at achieving its desired learning outcomes. To create a similar ethics curriculum in the core clinical year at other medical schools, there are twelve practical tips:  preparation: read the research on the ethical challenges for medical students; recruit an interdisciplinary teaching team; create cohorts for this aspect of the curriculum that will stay together for the year; grade o

SUBMITTER: Meacham KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9370080 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature