title: A medical curriculum in transition: audit and student perspective of undergraduate teaching of ethics and professionalism.
abstract: The General Medical Council (GMC) stipulates that doctors must be competent professionals, not merely scholars and practitioners. Medical school curricula should enable students to develop professional values and competencies. Additionally, medical schools are moving towards integrated undergraduate curricula, Cardiff'sC21being one such example.
  
  
  
  We carried out an audit to determine the extent to whichC21delivers GMC professionalism competencies, and a student questionnaire to explore student perspective on ethics and professionalism.
  
  
  
  C21delivers explicit or implicit teaching for all major GMC competencies, though some missed opportunities remain. The questionnaire responses showed that most students value ethics and professionalism teaching, and that it is most well received when delivered in a variety of ways and contexts throughout the curriculum. We also note that some respondents confuse ethics and professionalism with the policing of student behaviour.
  
  
  
  C21and curricula like it offer many opportunities for nurturing ethically and professionally competent physicians. Students appear to value this, though there remains confusion between medical school discipline and ethics and professionalism which needs further explication.
authors.affiliation: Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.
authors.forename: Toni C
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9831-1784
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Saad
authors.affiliation: Cardiff University School of Medicine, Dean of Medical Education, Cardiff, UK.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Riley
authors.affiliation: Consultant and Clinical Lead, Wales Managed Clinical Network in Paediatric Palliative Care, Children's Hospital, Cardiff, UK.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hain
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D011361:Professional Competence; D000068616:Professionalism / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Education for Health Care Professionals; Education/Programs