[Teaching of medical ethics and law at a medical school].

Abstract

Medical practice calls for a highly ethical approach and responsibility codified also by law. Doctors should be trained in this respect also during undergraduate studies. At the Medical Faculty, Comenius University Bratislava there is relatively enough space for training in ethics and law which begins already in the introduction to medical studies and proceeds in the 5th, 9th and 10th semester in several medical and sociological disciplines. Knowledge evaluated by an investigation among sixth year students was only general, not adequate as regards medical law and even less adequate as regards medical ethics. Evaluation of the assembled knowledge by the students themselves slightly overestimates the legal responsibility and legal regulations and rated adequately their training in the sphere of ethics.