Strategies to Get Medical Students and Trainees in the Ethics ‘Pipeline’

Many medical schools offer electives or pathways that allow medical students to develop knowledge and skills in bioethics. “These are largely designed to create ethically competent clinicians, perhaps those that can provide ethical leadership within an institution. But I am actually not aware of many MD programs that are aiming to train future clinical ethicists,” says Janet Malek, PhD, an associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy.