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Introduction to Medical Ethics for Phase I and Phase II
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Preface
The Medical College of Georgia (MCG) firmly believes that ethics education must be an integral part of the medical school curriculum. As an applied human science, the study of ethics is as fundamental to the education of a physician as the "hard sciences" such as anatomy, physiology, or pathology. Ethics is a necessary complement in producing physicians with the essential humanistic skills. The science of moral reasoning is founded on basic principles and assumptions about which there is wide consensus. It is a teachable subject with a discrete curriculum and meaningful criteria for evaluation.1 With this goal in mind, MCG introduces this four-year longitudinal Ethics curriculum. The preparers of this syllabus would like to express their deep appreciation to the many people who had the foresight and courage to propose this project and to support and nurture it in its earliest developmental phase and to give the curriculum committee a virtual free hand in the process. Without such patient, enthusiastic support, advice and continued commitment, this process could not have been done. Alan Roberts, MD, FACP 1 Sanders M. The Forgotten Curriculum: An argument for medical ethics education. JAMA. Vol. 274(9); September 6, 1995: 768-769. |
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