Extensive scientific and clinical studies have been conducted on the topic of medical ethics due to its significant importance in various societies, as well as its breath and health sensitivity in all communities. The present study aimed to discuss the comprehensive principles agreed both globally and in Islamic ethics in addition to defining and presenting a history of medical ethics. In addition, efforts were made to recognize and prioritize the challenges of medical ethics in India based on experts’ opinions so that researchers and scholars would more focus on the challenges in medical ethics in the future. This was an applied research in terms of goal and a descriptive survey regarding data collection. Following the review of the literature and obtaining the experts’ results, we identified 10 challenges in the field of medical ethics. Afterwards, the opinions of the experts were analyzed to rank the challenges. According to the results, the challenges of professional communication in medicine, education of physicians and professors and abortion had the highest priority.
