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Objectives: To describe the general characteristics of medical ethics education, teaching methods and assessment, objectives, areas content and readings required as contained in Peruvian medical schools syllabi. Design: Descriptive, transversal, observational study. Setting: Institute of Ethics in Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Material: Ethics course syllabi. Methods: Information of 25 ethics course syllabi corresponding to 22 medical schools were used: 13 public and 9 private (three schools had two courses). Data contained in the syllabi were analyzed using SPSS version 15 and Atlas ti for qualitative analysis. Main outcome measures: Characteristics of teaching on ethics. Results: All Peruvian medical schools required ethics course in their curricula. Most frequent name was Ethics and deontology. Most schools had only one course (n=19...