How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education
Here, I consider ways to assess the impact of ethics education on real-world decision making.
Medical Education
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Read more: Medical School Curricula Should Reflect Disease Burden Medical School Curricula Should Reflect Disease Burden
Medical students spend a lot of time learning about conditions they will likely never treat. This has negative implications for patient care.
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Read more: Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula
An overview of how ethics courses became a key component of medical education and what we know about their results.
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Read more: The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create
Now is a pivotal time for the American Medical Association to reconsider its aggressive scope of practice lobbying.
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Read more: We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula
Simply providing ethics training to health professions students does not ensure that they will make more ethical decisions in practice.
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Read more: Medical Schools Need to Do More to Reduce Students’ Debt Medical Schools Need to Do More to Reduce Students’ Debt
Today, the average medical student graduates with more than $215,000 of debt from medical school alone.
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Read more: Shortening Medical Training Would Help Trainees Balance Family and Career Shortening Medical Training Would Help Trainees Balance Family and Career
The length of medical training unnecessarily compromises trainees’ ability to balance their careers with starting families.
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Read more: How Preclinical Medical Students Have Embraced Advocacy Amid Virtual Education How Preclinical Medical Students Have Embraced Advocacy Amid Virtual Education
Despite our limited skills, we preclinical students sought to expand the scope of what medical students could do during a pandemic.
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Read more: How Medicine Learns About the Law How Medicine Learns About the Law
By Nadia N. Sawicki Many medical providers learn about the law the way kids learn about sex – whispers with friends, internet message boards, and media depictions of the most dramatic and unrealistic kind. And while both medical schools and junior high schools offer some type of formal education, it is quite limited, especially as compared…