Aims: Extensive research has been done to promote the medical ethics curriculum and several useful reviews and criticism have been published in this regard. However, no curriculum which is proportionate to our country's cultural and religious characteristics has been designed yet. So, the aim of this study was to design an appropriate and comprehensive pattern for medical ethics curriculum relying on Islam’s ethics and value principles.

 Methods: In this qualitative study, qualitative content analysis was used to examine the status of medical ethics education in Iran. Data was obtained using individual structured interview with 14 medical ethics authorities. In order to explain the elements and structure of the medical ethics curriculum in the international experiences, systematic review was used and 18 articles from the valid databases were analyzed. Using the library research, the evidence available in the reliable Islamic texts was gathered.

 Results: The designed pattern had a combinative approach toward the medical ethics curriculum elements. The most significant and the first level of the present pattern were Islamic basics and principles and in the higher level were the principles derived from these basics and essentials. Islamic principles and essentials directed the purposes of the present pattern and turned out to be like a filter to prevent the entrance of the elements inconsistent with Islamic values into the medical ethics curriculum .

 Conclusion: It is possible to achieve the ethical education and learning of skills and qualifications of medical ethics in light of medical ethics curriculum principles and essentials with an Islamic approach and considering the elements of the formal curriculum and implicit curriculum according to the goals of this pattern.