Professor Cathal Kelly:

The main emphasis in human rights is personal autonomy and individual rights, as elaborated in medical ethics. The medical ethics programme is part of our professionalism programme that is given throughout the programme beginning in foundation year, ramped up all the way through the graduation class, which is senior cycle 2. It is applies to different scenarios. For example, the Chairman can imagine the human rights and medical ethics that apply to obstetrics in terms of female genital mutilation and so forth. We try to make our teaching practical and relevant for the medical professional. In each area we try to find the appropriate utilisation to make those points.