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Between 1939 - 1945, unethical and often ghastly human experimentation was conducted in Nazi concentration camps. Physicians working in the camps also performed selections of prisoners for work detail or immediate death. Ultimately, there was a significant amount of physician complicity in Nazism and the Holocaust, ie. the genocide of European Jewry. At the end of WWII, war crime trials against the doctors and scientists involved helped give rise to the Nuremberg Code of Ethics.
There are increasing calls for inclusion of education on medicine during the Holocaust in medical school curricula. A study trip to Poland with pre-trip study modules for medical students was conducted examining the role of physicians during the Holocaust as an extension of medical ethics and humanities curriculum at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB). Students were prompted about their experiences.
Publication Date
5-2024
Disciplines
Bioethics and Medical Ethics
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Li M, Stamatin R, Wald H, Wasserman J. Critical reflection and place based medical education in bioethics, humanism, and professional identity formation: The impact of a study trip to Auschwitz. Poster presented at: Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Embark Capstone Colloquium; 2024 May; Rochester Hills, MI.
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The Embark Capstone Colloquium at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester Hills, MI, May, 2024.