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Biomedical ethics education may benefit from integrating compliance and analysis approaches

Two approaches have been widely applied in ethics education in the biomedical sciences: field-specific compliance and professional decision processes. Both approaches offer unique benefits to trainees, but future courses that integrate these two approaches might prove particularly valuable.

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Figure 1: Integrative model of ethics education.

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Mumford, M., Watts, L., Medeiros, K. et al. Biomedical ethics education may benefit from integrating compliance and analysis approaches. Nat Immunol 17, 605–608 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3465

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