Integrative review aiming to perform the analysis of how ethics in health higher education is addressed in the literature from January 2006 to December 2011, through research conducted in the SciELO and PubMed database. Twelve papers met the inclusion criteria: Medicine (6), Dentistry (3) Nursing (2) which were the areas with more emphasis on the publications, including one published in the area of Social Service and one Public Health article. Through content analysis, it was elected two thematic categories: Methods and Teaching Strategies and Ethics Learning Evaluation. The analysis indicated that the issues involved in the ethics teaching and learning are complex and include uncertainties and diversity of opinions and moral values. Students should work with the subject in disciplines with cross-cutting approach as an opportunity to exchange ideas and reflect on the issues.
Teaching; Ethics; Health