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Health professionals frequently face and have to solve ethical dilemmas in contemporary clinical practice. Learning and teaching ethics,  therefore, is an important aspect for students undertaking health programmes leading to professional registration, and in continuing professional development for qualified and experienced practitioners.

Relevant issues in learning and teaching ethics include:  

  • What are the most effective learning and teaching methods?
  • What subjects should be taught?
  • Should ethics be taught in discrete modules or integrated into practice based modules?
  • Is there a consensus of what is morally acceptable behaviour for health professionals?
  • Should ethics be a focus for inter-professional education or are issues profession specific?

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Resources

Occasional Paper 11, September 2010
 
Ethics in educational research: introducing a methodological tool for effective ethical analysis
 
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Links

Approaches to Ethics in Higher Education: Teaching Ethics across the Curriculum
 
The Pharmacy, Law and Ethics Centre at the Univeristy of Nottingham
 
The Politcs, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS)
 
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics
 
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Learning and Teaching Consultant for Ethics:
Janet Holt