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D W Musick

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PubMed2001

Protection of human subjects with disability: guidelines for research.

Typically, protection of human subjects is a shared responsibility involving the local institutional review board (IRB) and the clinical investigator, guided by federal and state law as well as local organizational policy. The IRB screens protocols to ensure subjects' safety by making sure that risks are acceptable and do not outweigh benefits. However, the recruitment of subjects, as well as obtaining consent, is the principal investigator's responsibility. Through the process of informed consent, the clinical investigator is obliged to ensure that each subject understands all treatments proposed and their potential benefits and risks. Achieving truly informed consent from people with major developmental, physical, sensory, communicative, or cognitive disabilities may be particularly difficult. Spurred on by increasing research of relevance to rehabilitation medicine and the patients served, we review legal, ethical, and moral issues surrounding the processes of obtaining informed consent and offer specific recommendations for protecting people with disabilities.

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PubMed1999

Teaching medical ethics: a review of the literature from North American medical schools with emphasis on education.

Efforts to reform medical education have emphasized the need to formalize instruction in medical ethics. However, the discipline of medical ethics education is still searching for an acceptable identity among North American medical schools; in these schools, no real consensus exists on its definition. Medical educators are grappling with not only what to teach (content) in this regard, but also with how to teach (process) ethics to the physicians of tomorrow. A literature review focused on medical ethics education among North American medical schools reveals that instruction in ethics is considered to be vitally important for medical students. Agreement by medical educators on a possible "core curriculum" in ethics should be explored. To develop such a curriculum, "deliberative curriculum inquiry" by means of a targeted Delphi technique may be a useful methodology. However, the literature reveals that medical curricular change is notoriously slow. General implications for medical ethics education as a discipline are discussed.

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