Abstract:
Formal teaching of ethics in Brazilian Medical Schools is generally superficial, and is executed beyond medical practice, in the discipline of Legal Medicine.
This paper suggests a curriculum adaptation in Medical Schools is the sense of teaching ethics in two phases: the first, pre-clinic, in the discipline of Pharmacology, and the second in the clinical practice as an introduction to medical work.
Teaching of ethics during the medical course should be carried out in the form of seminaries in the departments of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Preventive Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry and Legal Medicine. During medical residency ethics should be taught according to observed clinical cases while during pos graduation ethics should be included as an important moral and philosophical component in the discipline of Scientific Methodology.