Education Project
Education Project
The IME Project on Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Medical Ethics and Law in UK Medical Schools - Aims
The practice of good medicine inevitably raises both ethical and legal issues and demands an understanding of
both and the General Medical Council (GMC) requires that medical ethics and law (MEL) be one of the core
components of the medical curriculum. Knowledge of basic medical sciences and the development of clinical
and technical skills are necessary but not sufficient for Good Medical Practice. These must be balanced by,
among other attributes, appropriate professional attitudes, moral awareness, the ability to reason ethically
and an understanding of the relevant law.
As a result of an ongoing consultation process within the IME
a
core content of learning
has been formulated, the updated version of which was published in 2010:
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