Medical Education, Clinical Ethics, and Bioethics for Medical Students and Residents / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

Clinical ethics education aims to provide medical students and residents with adequate knowledge and skills to cope with ethical problems encountered in patient care. It is essential for students to study the historical background of biomedical ethics, normative ethical theories, and qualitative and quantitative data relevant to descriptive ethics in Japan. The significance of critical case analysis from an ethical point of view should also be addressed. Informed consent, truth-telling, and medical end-of-life decisions have been gradually gaining recognition as the most important topics in clinical ethics education. Controversial issues, such as medical futility, fair resource allocation, and family involvement in medical decision in our culture, should also be studied.