The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities promotes the exchange of ideas and fosters multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and inter-professional scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in clinical and academic bioethics and the medical humanities.

 

 

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Bioethics and Humanities Education

Undergraduate Internships in Bioethics   

Offered by universities, colleges, and organizations in the US and abroad as of November 2007:

Masters and Other Programs 

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Online MA Program in Bioethics & Health Policy
http://bioethics.lumc.edu/
This program is available entirely online but has optional on-campus, short course components. It is operated by the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy at Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine but also features faculty from other departments of the university and instructors drawn form other universities around the United States. This website also contains resources related to the teaching of professionalism and cultural competence, and ethical issues related to disability.

Michigan State University
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences
http://bioethics.msu.edu/
Master of Arts in Bioethics, Humanities, and Society
http://bhs.msu.edu/programdes.php

Michigan State University
Master of Arts in Bioethics, Humanities, and Society
http://bhs.msu.edu/programdes.php
Collaboratively sponsored by the Colleges of Human Medicine, Arts and Letters, and Social Science

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/
Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program
MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics

NYU Medical Humanities Syllabi
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/syllabi.for.web/syllabi.menu.page.html
NYU Med-Lit maintains a number of medical humanities syllabi

RCPSC Bioethics curricula
http://rcpsc.medical.org/ethics/index.php
The Royal College requires residency programs to include bioethics as a condition of accreditation. Resources that facilitate the attainment of this goal are the Bioethics Teaching Project, the Pediatric Ethics Network project (PedEthNet), and the Ian Anderson Continuing Education Program in End-of-Life Care. These are meant to assist residents and teachers.

Saint Louis University
Department of Health Care Ethics
http://chce.slu.edu
The Department of Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University offers a PhD in Health Care Ethics and a Certificate in Clinical Health Care Ethics. PhD students may elect to complete a certificate in empirical bioethics research.

Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/dept/scbe/
The Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) embraces challenges in biomedical ethics, focusing on the application of ethical reasoning to moral problems in the practice of medicine and science.

Trinity International University
http://www.tiu.edu/tiu/bioethics
Masters degree in bioethics, which equips people to understand Christian and other influential contemporary perspectives on bioethics. Can be completed without relocating to Chicago. Globally-active Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity headquartered on campus. Half-tuition and full-tuition "Brown Scholarships" available.

Union Graduate College
Online MA program
http://www.bioethics.union.edu/

University of Louisville
http://louisville.edu/bioethicsma
The Interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Louisville is a professional degree intended to provide graduates with an enriched ethical knowledge base, preparing them to work in clinical or hospital settings, and to undertake scholarly research or teach in the field of bioethics and medical humanities. The program will enhance graduates’ contextual experience within their primary professional field (such as law, medicine, and nursing).

University of Pittsburgh
Consortium Ethics Program
http://www.pitt.edu/~cep/
The Consortium Ethics Program (CEP) is a regional bioethics education network, funded by its member institutions and co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, and the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law.

University of Pittsburgh
MA in Bioethics
http://www.pitt.edu/~bioethic
This interdisciplinary program-designed for clinicians, lawyers, and students of the humanities and social sciences-combines clinical practica, in-depth research, and seminars in bioethical issues, ethical theory, philosophy and history of medicine, health law, public health, and the social sciences. Joint programs with schools of law and medicine permit students to pursue the MA with the JD or MD in less time than would be required to pursue the degrees separately.

University of South Florida
http://www.hsc.usf.edu/medicine/internalmedicine/bioethics/index.htm
Masters Program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics

University of Toronto
The Ethics OSCE: Standardized Patient Scenarios for Teaching and Evaluating Bioethics
http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/osce.html
Peter Singer and Anja Robb designed 14 standardized patient scenarios for teaching and evaluating bioethics. It is part of the Ethics OSCE Project of the University of Toronto.

Virtual Mentor
http://www.virtualmentor.org/
Geared toward medical students and residents.

Wake Forest University
Master of Arts in Bioethics
http://www.wfu.edu/bioethics
The interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Bioethics at Wake Forest University is geared to students and professionals with a diversity of academic and employment experience in biomedical research, clinical medicine, and health policy.   The MA in Bioethics program takes advantage of Wake Forest's unique attributes and strengths to focus on social justice, biotechnology, and clinical and research ethics.

 

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