Ethics Education for Canadian Medical Students

66(7) Academic Medicine 413, 1991

2 Pages Posted: 5 Jul 2013

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Françoise Baylis

Dalhousie University

Jocelyn Downie

Schulich School of Law & Faculty of Medicine

Date Written: July 1991

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.

Keywords: ethics, education, Canada, medical students, medical school

Suggested Citation

Baylis, Françoise and Downie, Jocelyn, Ethics Education for Canadian Medical Students (July 1991). 66(7) Academic Medicine 413, 1991, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2289878

Françoise Baylis (Contact Author)

Dalhousie University ( email )

6225 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7
Canada

Jocelyn Downie

Schulich School of Law & Faculty of Medicine ( email )

Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H9
Canada

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