PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - B Green AU - P D Miller AU - C P Routh TI - Teaching ethics in psychiatry: a one-day workshop for clinical students. AID - 10.1136/jme.21.4.234 DP - 1995 Aug 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 234--238 VI - 21 IP - 4 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/4/234.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/4/234.full SO - J Med Ethics1995 Aug 01; 21 AB - In this paper we describe the objectives of teaching medical ethics to undergraduates and the teaching methods used. We describe a workshop used in the University of Liverpool Department of Psychiatry, designed to enhance ethical sensitivity in psychiatry. The workshop reviews significant historical and current errors in the ethical practice of psychiatry and doctors' defence mechanisms against accepting responsibility for deficiencies in ethical practice. The workshop explores the student doctors' own group ethos in response to ethical dilemmas, and demonstrates how the individual contributes to and is responsible for the group ethos through participation and also through nonparticipation. The student feedback about the workshop is reviewed. The Toronto Ethical Sensitivity Instrument was used to assess whether or not the workshop altered sensitivity. Compared to a control group the attenders' sensitivity was significantly increased (on Student's t-test p equals or is less than 0.002).