Medical Protection Society
MBChB V MPS Ethics Debate 2023
The Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, in collaboration with the Medical Protection Society (MPS) and the Tygerberg Debating Union,
hosted a stimulating Ethics Debate with the motion: 'This house would impose penalties for medical institutions that do not attempt to reduce their environmental impact.' The debate was held on 23 March 2023.
MBChB V MPS Ethics Debate 2022
The Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, in collaboration with the MPS and the Tygerberg Debating Union, hosted a robust Ethics Debate with the motion: ‘This House Believes That Artificial Intelligence-Driven Health Care poses gender and ethics biases.’ The debate was held on 24 March 2022.
MBChB V MPS Ethics Debate 2021
The debate was held on 30 September 2021 – Topic: This house will allow doctors to conscientiously object to treating patients who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The MPS co-hosted livestream event was attended by approximately 120 academics, medical practitioners, and students.
Winner of 8th ethics essay competition - 2018
This year all health science students were invited to submit essays on the topic :" The Ethics of water as a scarce resource in Cape Town- A tragedy of the commons?"
Congratulations to Louiso Du Pisanie (MBChB 4 student) whose submission was selected as the winning essay by Dr Graham Howarth of MPS in the UK.
View essay here
Winner of 7th ethics essay competition - 2017
This year all health science students were invited to submit essays on the topic : "Protest action in higher education: rights and responsibilities of health science students"
Congratulations to Thobeka Nkabinde (MBChB 4 student) whose submission was selected as the winning essay by Dr Graham Howarth of MPS in the UK. She received her prize of R 5000.00 at the Annual MPS Ethics Evening that was held on 18 October 2017 at the CTICC.