Why is it important to
educate medical students, doctors and other health professionals
in human rights issues?
Why is it important to collaborate with like-minded associations
to introduce these issues into courses? |
"Human Rights and medical education. Why
every medical student should learn the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights":
"There is perhaps no better place to begin to impart
an awareness of human dignity than in the small world of the
doctor-patient relationship. At entry to medical school, were
each student to be given a copy of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and asked to commit its essence to memory,
by the time of graduation each article would be linked to
recollections of people met and understood, people taken care
of as patients and encountered as peers. Thus are patterns
of a lifetime set, preparing this next generation of practitioners
for practice into the next decades. Hippocrates and Maimonides
still abide, but the vast changes in situations and circumstances
since they spoke create the need for other canons."
Please click on Editorial,
Saturday 29 November 1997, BMJ, Vol. 315, No. 7120 to
read the full article.
The following books are available for purchase at the British
Medical Association online bookstore: www.bmjbookshop.com
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| Prevention of Torture. Support for the Rehabilitation
of Victims of Torture. |
| The Istanbul Protocol Project: |
 Brief
description (PDF) |
The Manual on the Effective Investigation and
Documentation of Torture and other Cruel or Inhuman Treatment
or Punishment.
Please click on www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/training.htm
to read the full document. |
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| Hunger Strikes |
Learning
Objectives (PDF) |
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| "Informed Consent
and Confidentiality", health care for vulnerable
groups and standards for prison physicians. |
Please click on www.project.legeforeningen.no
to read the article
(Password: Prison) |
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Medical Students International Network
Human rights training programmes in process
www.medsin.org
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British Medical Association
Human rights training programmes in process
www.bma.org.uk
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International Training Centre on Human
Rights and Peace Teaching
Material available but not visible on homepage. Material
in French
www.eip-cifedhop.org
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World Health Organization
Material available but not on the website
www.who.int
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International Federation of Medical Students'
Associations
www.ifmsa.org
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