Medical ethics is more than a module—it’s a mindset. In this episode, Mario Vaz and Jordan Parsons reflect on how they try to go beyond lectures and focus on reflexivity as one of the skills that matters deeply in real-world care.

Mario was a Professor and the Head of Physiology at St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru (India). He has retired now. Jordan is an Assistant Professor in Medical Ethics and Law at Birmingham Medical School (UK).

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This podcast is funded by Wellcome.

Complete show notes + transcript

ALSO CHECK OUT.

1. Mario Vaz’s paper on the historical attempts to include ethics in medical education in India
2. Barna Ganguly’s paper on how bioethics is taught at the undergraduate level to medical students in India. It relates to the Attitude, Ethics and Communication module that Mario mentions
3. Mario’s views on the importance of positive role models in medical education (Open access)
4. Heidi Lempp’s paper on the hidden curriculum in medical education in the UK (Open access)
5. Manjulika Vaz’s article on how reflective writing helped medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic (Open access)
6. Sunil Pandya’s review of Bench to Bedside: An Anthology of Medical Student Narratives. (Open access)
7. Episode 2 - The Ethics of Being There: Fieldwork, Doubt and Meaning with Supriya Subramani and Anna Dowrick