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in Health and Human Values two week on-site seminar (Aug) Baker, Rhodes, Greenlaw, Lederer, McCullough, Veatch An intensive two-week introduction to current topics in clinical ethics and bioethics, taught seminar style at Union Graduate College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. This overview of current issues in bioethics humanities involves four special seminars, case conferences and ethics rounds. There will also be training in the computer skills (demonstrations, workshops) essential to mastering distance learning. This must be taken in the first fifteen months of enrollment. BIE 510 - Biomedical Ethics Fall, on-line Baker An advanced historically based introduction to bioethics and clinical ethics focusing on such formalizations of medical morality as the Hippocratic Oath, the AMA codes, the Belmont Report and Beauchamp and Childress Principles, and the idea of casuistry. Major cases in bioethics will also be reviewed and the evolution of the core concepts and infrastructure of medical ethics and bioethics will be examined. BIE 520 - Health Care Policy Winter, on-line Strosberg This course provides an understanding of the public policy making process and the political and regulatory environment in which health care organizations function. It also provides an understanding of managerial processes, politics, and structure of the health care organizations where ethical policies and practices are implemented and carried out on an ongoing basis. Policies for consideration include resource allocation, end-of-life decision-making, accountability and performance measurement, and conflict-of-interest. BIE 530 - Bioethics and the Law Spring, on-line Ouellette and Greenlaw This course is designed to familiarize students with major legal issues and legal concepts relevant to bioethics. BIE 545 - Reproductive Ethics Summer, on-line Steinbock An investigation of the ethical and legal problems associated with new reproductive technologies and genetics. Elective course |
BIE 555 - Research
Ethics: Discussions in Scientific Integrity Fall, on-line Gligorov, Rhodes and staff A course in research ethics including a discussion of the IRB process. Elective course BIE 565 - Research Ethics: Empirical Research Methods in Bioethics Fall, on-line A course in empirical research methodology designed to teach how to conduct empirical research in the field, and how to analyze the empirical bioethics literature. Elective course BIE 590 - Clinical Ethics Winter, on-line Gligorov and Rhodes This course deals with the practical applications of clinical ethics, including clinical ethics consulting and its recording and documentation, the work of ethics committees and IRBs, and other practical ethics of clinical ethics. BIE 610 - On-Line Clinical Practicum Spring, on-line Orr A supervised practical experience in clinical ethics designed to teach skill in clinical ethics consultation. Supervision by on-line faculty and mentors. BIE 620 - On-Site Clinical Practicum Spring, On-Site, (one week late May or early June) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine Rhodes and staff A supervised practical experience in clinical ethics designed to teach skills in clinical ethics consultation. Prerequisite: BIE 590 (MED 202) BIE 630 & BIE 640 - Masters Project Winter & Spring, on-line Steinbock and staff The masters project in bioethics or clinical ethics, will involve two terms of research culminating in a written document addressing some aspect of clinical ethics or bioethical policy, such as a proposal to revise or reform practices at a medical institution or managed care organization, or a proposal to change bioethical policy. BIE 650 - Capstone Clinical Practicum Spring, On-Site, (one week early June prior to Graduation) Baker, Rhodes and staff Capstone in which students demonstrate their mastery of clinical ethics consultation, and present their masters project to other students and their advisors. |
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"The program brings together a wonderful and diverse group of professionals whose different views of the ethical dilemmas facing health care providers are excellent. The blend of practitioners, policy makers, administrators, etc. enables the students to see their current world through new eyes."
