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Clinical ethics
Use of cadavers to train surgeons: what are the ethical issues?
  1. Hannah James1,2
  1. 1 Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
  2. 2 Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hannah James, Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; h.smith.1{at}warwick.ac.uk

Abstract

This is an invited submission from the Editor-in-Chief as the introductory piece for an ‘Ethics Roundtable’. This piece will include invited commentaries from experts in surgical education, medical ethics, law and the prospective body donor perspective.

  • education for health care professionals
  • education
  • human tissue
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-105873

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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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