RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The teaching of medical ethics: University College, Cork, Ireland.
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 36
OP 39
DO 10.1136/jme.4.1.36
VO 4
IS 1
A1 D D Clarke
YR 1978
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/4/1/36.abstract
AB Dolores Dooley Clarke describes how the course in medical ethics at University College, Cork is structured, how it has changed and how it is likely to change as time goes on. Originally, the students seemed to view it as an intrusion 'to be tolerated' in their programme of 'strictly medical' studies. However, having moved on from that and away from the lecturer always being a Roman Catholic priest as well as a member of the Philosophy Department, the students now appear to view it as producing a stimulus for a new interest in the area of ethics for physicians. This seems to have come about through the more extensive participation of students in researching and presenting issues of medical ethics.