In-depth learning: one school's initiatives to foster integration of ethics, values, and the human dimensions of medicine

The authors of this survey describe three inititiatives at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine that seeks to make ethics part of the curriculum by having students pursue a focused project which helps them blend values and ethics with medical research in a way that is not usually possible in a survey course. These in-depth experiences blend situated learning, reflective exercises, faculty mentoring, critical reading of literature, and constructive feedback in a prescribed but individualized curriculum.