When lecturers need patient consent

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7549.1100

BMJ 2006;332:1100 (6 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7549.1100

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When lecturers need patient consent

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Medical ethics places much emphasis on patients' autonomy andthe importance of informed consent, exemplified by detailedguidance on consent for clinical treatment or investigationand for research. Consent (or lack of it) is also relevant whenstudents and doctors learn, and when medical journals publisheducational case reports. The use of patients' information inmedical presentations, however, seems to be largely ignored.For example, of nine royal colleges (of 13 contacted) replyingto inquiries I made in preparing this article, only one issuedspecific guidance to lecturers about showing patients' photographsat its meetings—although one was considering it as a result.A further two colleges referred, on their websites, to the GeneralMedical Council's guidance on audiovisual recordings of patients(www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/library/making_audiovisual.asp), andthe website of one college referred to similar guidance issuedby the BMA (www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/PDFAVrecordings/$FILE/AV.pdf).None of the three US colleges that replied . . . [Full text of this article]

S M Yentis, consultant anaesthetist

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London s.yentis@imperial.ac.uk

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