title: A medical ethics project for third-year medical students.
abstract: During the 1987-1988 academic year, each of the third-year students at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia were asked to prepare a case study that involved ethical issues, drawn from a clinical experience. Instructions for the studies included a brief description of ethical principles and a format for including needed information about the patient, the family, and the caregivers. A study was made of the quality of these case studies, the types of ethical issues raised, and some attitudes expressed in them. Follow-up discussion groups with faculty leaders, using these case studies, are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Humanities and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 23284.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Redmon
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D026688:Bioethical Issues; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D012945:Social Values; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods