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 Jul 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 474--475 VI - 46 IP - 7 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/46/7/474.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/46/7/474.full SO - J Med Ethics2020 Jul 01; 46 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.