title: Ethics education for Canadian medical students.
abstract: This study was designed to determine the nature, extent, and quality of medical ethics education for students in Canadian medical schools. In 1989, a questionnaire that used primarily open-ended questions was sent to all 16 Canadian medical schools; they all responded. Significant findings include the following: 15 of the 16 schools provided some ethics education (with wide-ranging objectives); the amounts of time alloted for such instruction ranged from ten and a half hours to 45 hours (per degree, not per year), with no discernible pattern in the distribution of hours across the years; most teaching was case-based and issue-oriented; most instructors were physicians; and almost all the schools conducted assessments of students using a pass-fail standard.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioethics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Baylis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Downie
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods