title: Introducing the Medical Ethics Bowl.
abstract: Although ethics is an essential component of undergraduate medical education, research suggests that current medical ethics curricula face considerable challenges in improving students' ethical reasoning. This article discusses these challenges and introduces a promising new mode of graduate and professional ethics instruction for overcoming them. We begin by describing common ethics curricula, focusing in particular on established problems with current approaches. Next, we describe a novel method of ethics education and assessment for medical students that we have devised: the Medical Ethics Bowl (MEB). Finally, we suggest the pedagogical advantages of the MEB when compared to other ethics curricula.
authors.forename: Allison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Merrick
authors.forename: Rochelle
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Thomas V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Cunningham
authors.forename: Leah R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
authors.forename: D Micah
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Hester
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000941:ethics*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000941:ethics*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Medical Ethics Bowl; ethical reasoning; ethics curricula; undergraduate medical education