Bioethics in Medical Education

It could be said that the most serious and important social and ethical problems facing medical education are those that originate in the transformations that medical schools and academic health centers have weathered throughout the last four decades. The long-standing tendency of medical educators to attach “magic-bullet” significance to the power of designated courses to positively influence and professionally shape the attitudes and behavior of medical students and young physicians seems unduly optimistic, and somewhat misdirected.