Is UNESCO’s Undergraduate Bioethics Integrated Curriculum (Medical) fit for purpose?

Finlay, Ilora G, Choong, Kartina Aisha orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9407-1771 and Nimmagadda, Seshagiri R (2019) Is UNESCO’s Undergraduate Bioethics Integrated Curriculum (Medical) fit for purpose? Journal of Medical Ethics, 45 . pp. 600-603. ISSN 0306-6800

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-105437

Abstract

In 2017, UNESCO introduced an Undergraduate Bioethics Integrated Curriculum to be taught in Indian medical schools, with an implied suggestion that it could subsequently be rolled out to medical schools in UNESCO’s other member states. Its stated aim is to create ethical awareness from an early stage of a doctor’s training by infusing ethics instructions throughout the entire undergraduate medical syllabus. There are advantages to a standardised integrated curriculum where none existed. However, the curriculum as presently drafted risks failing to achieve its laudable aims. There are important lessons to be drawn from UNESCO’s First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education (2018), which is aimed at schoolchildren and teenagers, and represents a creative, effective and culturally sensitive way to teach bioethics.


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