Background: Medical ethics has traditionally been taught using dramatic, out-of-the-ordinary
cases to illustrate principles. Little attention has been focused on the ethical decisions family …

Background: Clinical ethics and ethics committees are a real phenomenon in medicine and
play an important role in improving patient care by enhancing the decision-making process …

As part of its mandate, the Committee on Ethics of the College of Family Physicians of
Canada (CE-CFPC) has contributed to ethics curriculum development for family medicine …

Professional and accreditation organizations have endorsed medical ethics as a
fundamental component of education for family medicine trainees. Yet various obstacles …

OBJECTIVE To identify what training in medical ethics physician teachers need. DESIGN
Qualitative research study using a modified nominal group technique. SETTING Family …

The defining features of family medicine as described in the literature have important ethical
implications. In an attempt to study the day-to-day practice of family physicians regarding …

PURPOSE. To develop a curriculum in ethics in family practice by studying which ethical
issues physicians believe to be important based on frequency of encounter, difficulty in …

That family physicians ought to attend to the ethical implications of their practice and their
spe cialty is a message heard increasingly of late in the family medicine literature. The …

The model used for teaching ethics at the Ghent Family Medi cine Residency at Eastern
Virginia Medical School consists of a monthly one-hour noon conference integrating ethical …

Since many ethical dilemmas in the practice of medicine in volve cases associated with
tertiary care, primary care pro viders may feel removed from these kinds of problems. Family …