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Introducing the Medical Ethics Bowl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2016

ALLISON MERRICK ,
ROCHELLE GREEN ,
THOMAS V. CUNNINGHAM ,
LEAH R. EISENBERG  and
D. MICAH HESTER
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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.

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ethics curriculaMedical Ethics Bowlundergraduate medical educationethical reasoning
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 141 - 149
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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