Abstract
This article describes the process and results of the deliberations of the group of authors at the 1989 spring meeting of the Northeast Group for Educational Affairs. The participants worked under the premise that someone had given an unlimited amount of money to fund a new medical school. They had to select and define what the educational goals would be and produce a plan to help students reach these goals. There had to be an evaluation process that documented progress toward the stated goals. This paper describes the ethics and human values curriculum, which should be of interest to cancer educators. The knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes are defined and the four‐year process of implementing the teaching is described. This curriculum‐planning process is applicable to any aspect of cancer education — first defining the outcome, then the evaluation process, and finally, how to get to that outcome.
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Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Director of Psychiatry Education, The Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
Assistant Dean of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI
Department of Education, Brown University, Providence, RI
Medical Ethicist, Continuing Medical Education, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Professor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Director of Educational Development, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.