It's ethical, but is it legal? Teaching ethics and law in the medical school curriculum

摘要: While Western medical ethics has ancient roots in the teachings of Hippocrates, its standing undergraduate curriculum is a distinctly modern development. Today, all 127 accredited U.S. schools offer formal biomedical instruction, and nearly instruction related discipline health law. This article describes how law are taught at University Iowa College Medicine, one 12 that offers separate required courses both Often overlap; often, to act ethically legally. But students practicing physicians also regularly confront dilemmas pose question, "It's ethical, but it legal?" discusses goals, methods, core themes teaching issues intersection medicine, ethics, law, approach this designed tool kit begin deal effectively with these complex professional life. Anat Rec (New Anat) 265:5-9, 2001.