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Teaching Law in Medical Schools: First, Reflect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Amy T. Campbell
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[T]each the law to empower physicians individually and collectively to use the law and law colleagues to serve patients and promote public welfare; in short to better foster the goals of the medical profession.

And yet:

[A]ntipathy appears to be deeper and more pervasive than ever before, making it hard to imagine that relations between attorneys and physicians can get much worse.

It has long been recognized that an understanding of at least some core legal rules and concepts is an important piece of medical training. To address this, law is now typically part of the core medical school curriculum, often incorporated into bioethics and/or practice of medicine coursework — whether as part of a distinct course or series of courses or threaded through the curriculum (or both). While often this education focuses on rules, some have recommended that it also include fundamentals of legal reasoning, and go beyond knowledge to include skills, attitudes, and behaviors vis-à-vis the law.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , Summer 2012 , pp. 301 - 310
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