Why aren’t medical students trained in ethics the same way law students are? Ethics is required in school and your knowledge of ethics is tested in a stand-alone bar examination before a lawyer can start practicing.
Here’s a link to a BMJ article on it.
With consent, medical students get to observe most surgical procedures, but we aren’t encouraged to observe complex ethical situations. We should be.
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