Multidisciplinary teaching in a formal medical ethics course for clinical students.

A successful feature of the 4th-year curriculum in the Medical of the Queen's University, Belfast has been the development of teaching in a three-week joint course to which several departments contribute...Co-ordinated teaching of topics of common in small groups included, until the academic year 1987/88, a-hour session on medical ethics. In the spring of 1987 the authors the Department of Philosophy at Queen's; subsequently proposals for formal multidiscipinary course in medical ethics for 4th-year clinical in the Medical Faculty, for the academic year 1987/88, were approved the Education Committee of the Medical Faculty.