PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - D Gareth Jones TI - From undergraduate to postgraduate uses of the dead human body: consequential ethical shift AID - 10.1136/medethics-2019-105997 DP - 2020 Feb 13 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - medethics-2019-105997 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/02/13/medethics-2019-105997.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/02/13/medethics-2019-105997.full AB - The dependence of surgical training programmes on the supply of bodies by for-profit organisations places them at serious ethical risk. These risks, with their commodification of the bodies used in the programme, are outlined. It is concluded that this is not a satisfactory model for the trainees’ subsequent interaction with living patients and that a code of practice is required.