Future doctors flunk military medical ethics test
December 10th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Cox
Medical students get a failing grade on their knowledge of physicians’ ethical obligations during wartime, according to a new study authored by a team of Harvard Medical School physicians.
The authors said their study, published in October in the International Journal of Men’s health Services, should prompt medical schools to educate future doctors more thoroughly on the ethical questions they could face in an age of terror and torture.