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Medical Law and Medical School Curricula: A Systematic Review.
Curēus 2024 Februrary
Health law plays a crucial role in the field of medicine, as it dictates appropriate practices, regulations, and rights and responsibilities for healthcare professionals and patients. Despite this undeniable relationship, there is a lack of focus on health law, and an outdated hidden curriculum in medical education has perpetuated long-standing negative perceptions of the legal system. PubMed was searched for articles related to medicolegal education that were published from January 1950 to December 2022. The following search terms were utilized: "(medical student) AND (law OR legal OR medico-legal) AND (education)". Literature that directly or indirectly discussed the relationship between law and medicine as well as the role of medical student education within the medicolegal nexus were reviewed. Additional literature was identified from reference lists of systematic and literature reviews. The authors manually reviewed each included publication to determine key details, study populations, and conclusions. The PubMed search revealed 3,592 papers that were sorted for relevance. Forty-four articles published between 1971 and 2022 were reviewed and analyzed. Three main themes consistently emerged from the discussions in these articles. The first theme concerns the sentiment among medical students that they were ill-prepared to manage the legal aspects of healthcare. The second theme concerns the negative perception of health law by medical students. The third theme details the benefits of including medicolegal courses in medical school curricula. This study sheds light on the notion that medical students feel ill-prepared to handle the legal aspects of healthcare due to limited medicolegal education. Furthermore, negative perceptions of the legal field continue to exist amongst medical students due to a plethora of factors, including an outdated hidden curriculum. Incorporating medicolegal courses into medical school curricula can foster positive attitudes toward the field of law and lead to enhanced professional ethics, increased patient advocacy, and potentially improved patient outcomes.
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