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Reflecting on senior medical students' ethics reports at the University of Auckland
  1. Phillipa J Malpas
  1. Correspondence to Phillipa J Malpas, Lecturer in Clinical Medical Ethics, Department of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand; p.malpas{at}auckland.ac.nz

Abstract

In January 2010, fifth year medical students in the medical programme at the University of Auckland were asked to write a 1200-word report as part of their ethics assessment. The purpose of the report was to get students to reflect critically on the ethical dimension of a clinical case or situation they had been involved in during the past 2 years. Students were required to identify and discuss the salient ethical issues that arose as they saw them, and consider what they had personally learnt from the situation. The purpose of the following discussion is twofold: first, to outline some of the ethical issues raised by year five medical students in their ethics reports; and second, to reflect on what we, as educators and health professionals can learn from their experiences and insights.

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