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This article focuses on the need to examine the graduate and postgraduate studies of the surgeon-dentist in Peru. The presence of an ethic normative in scientific investigation generated by the University is analysed from the training of the professor's point of view. The paper also focuses on the knowledge and attitudes entailed with ethics and bioethics in the odontologist's shaping. The paper deduces that a change of paradigm is an engagement that has to be encouraged through a massive movement that should involve family and academic contours aiming at integrating ethical refection in our daily proceedings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper reflects about the new bioethics teaching modality that employs a platform of virtual teaching. It points out this model's advantages and difficulties and the challenges it faces in order to reach an effective result of its pedagogical aims. It recommends to employ semipresential learning models or the combination of a mixed bioethics' virtual teaching: presential and non presential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues about the ethical implications of using animals as models for human medicine development. This reflection adopts an intermediate stand between the extreme positions of condemning all research with animals, considering it irrelevant, and that of exaggerating and promoting research with animals as models for human diseases. Our stand considers that in the current scientific state, research with animals is necessary for adjusting to the moral imperative of curing and preventing human diseases, but methods for replacing and reducing the number of animals as well as diminishing their suffering must be sought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]