Medical education and ethical training: a scoping review

Abstract

The medical education curriculum is undergoing profound transformations aimed at developing
practical skills for medical practice. Ethics must occupy a central place in this restructuring to enable
patient-centered practice. This study aims to conduct a scoping review of articles from the last five
years addressing ethics in medical education. Two results stood out from this review: the structuring
of ethics content in the curriculum and the development of ethical sensitivity. The ethical training of
future physicians cannot be reduced to a cognitivist perspective of knowing how to argue and formulate
moral judgments. However, it must also assume an affective perspective to create ethical sensitivity that
includes attitudes and skills to understand the ethical problem in its context.