Ethics

Essential tool kits

Ethics for students

Just embarking on your medical career? 

This tool kit aims to give you:

a general introduction to common ethical problems you may encounter

practical ways of thinking about ethical problems to help solve issues which arise

Use the ethics tool kit for students

Armed forces ethics tool kit

We help armed forces doctors fulfil their ethical obligations as medical doctors in the military context.
Find out more and use the tool kit

Child protection app

Take BMA expertise with you wherever you are

Designed to help doctors who only occasionally encounter child protection issues.  

It includes:

an interactive decision-making flow chart

video clips from leading practitioners

key advice on basic child protection principles

definitions of abuse and neglect 

responding to initial child protection concerns.

This is a vital practical guide for all doctors working in England and Wales.

An android version will be available soon.

Download the itunes app

Find a publication

Use our ethics A to Z to find quick links to all our papers, guidance, tool kits and books, including:

Safeguarding vulnerable adults

End of life care

Firearms

Ethics A to Z

Human rights

The BMA has always advocated the highest standards of human rights in healthcare, both for clinicians and patients.

Most recently, we have spoken out against human rights abuses during civil unrest in Bahrain and Syria.

More on our human rights work