EDUCATING THE DEVELOPING DENTAL STUDENT IN ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM.

Abstract

Ethics education has been a required part of accreditation standards for dental and dental hygiene programs since the 19lJs. The dominant approach uses a combination of lectures and small, case-based seminars to teach ethical principles and provide practice in decision-making procedures to reason through dilemmas where there are several "right" ways to act. Detail is provided about three such programs.