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Almost daily, ethical issues in healthcare grow more complicated. With rapidly advancing science and treatments come moral concerns that were unheard of just a few years ago. Healthcare professionals are on the frontline of these crucial issues, and schools are making efforts to prepare them.
Dr. Rick Boyte, associate professor of pediatrics and chairman of the Ethics Advisory Committee at University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC), says ethics has become a very important subject at medical schools with a lot of effort devoted to it for the past five years.
"In the past, it was not stressed and typically was not integrated into the curriculum like it is now," he said. "It was felt that ethics could be picked up through role modeling and mentoring, but the need is so much more than that."
Boyte also teaches the senior seminar in ethics to fourth-year medical students, a 10-week course that covers a lot of subjects. Another course, Introduction to Clinical Medicine, has components in ethics. This school year for the fast time, fast-year medical students will take a course in cultural diversity. He says ethics was not taught like it is now when he went through UMC in the 1980s.
"That was when bioethics was the property of philosophy-based...
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