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Not Even Short Nonfat Half Caf, ehm, Excuse Me, Get it Right? Half-caf Short Nonfat Bioethics?

The University of Washington's daily student newspaper editorializes that it is time for a bioethics class in the medical school. This struck us as odd, given that UW has one of the most amazing online guides to bioethics curriculum out there, and a powerhouse bioethics program run by nice people who all have teaching training. So where's the bioethics course at u-dub? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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It doesn't look like it. See UW School of Medicine Curriculum Overview at http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/uwsom/

that isn't a link to their courses, it is that curriculum stuff we were talking about. ironic huh.

We are thinking this story will make a great ethics case for a journalism class someday. This reporter did not interview anyone for this story, relying only on brief email responses to her already narrow questions. While it is true that stand-alone ethics courses are not required, it could not be further from the truth to say that we do not make ethics a priority in the curriculum. Rather, issues in medical ethics are considered such a key element of the curriculum that they are integrated into several required courses and clinical clerkships, and are taught within our longitudinal clinical skills course over four years. Thanks for the kind words about our program though! We appreciate that.

Something perhaps even more frightening than the lack of specific courses in medical ethics for medical students is the lack of significant course material on medical and/or management ethics in a number of public administration and policy programs who tout a specialty in health policy and/or health administration. Many of these programs offer courses in health law and health economics, but I would love to see the argument that law+economics=ethics.
MDs/DOs alone do not have the monopoly on unethical behavior in medicine.

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