700.621.81
Ethics in Clinical Practice: Fundamentals, Problems and Approaches
Location
Internet
Term
2nd Term
Department
Berman Institute (Bioethics)
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2016 - 2017
Instruction Method
TBD
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Course Instructor(s)
Margaret Moon
Cynda Rushton
Joseph Carrese
Mark Hughes
Matthew DeCamp
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
None
Offers students a) a theoretical and practical foundation for identifying and analyzing ethical issues arising in clinical medicine and b) a survey of important current issues and problems in clinical ethics with c) a focus on case analysis and application of principles to problems. Sessions are interactive and case-based. Instructors are faculty in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, each teaching about a particular area of ethical expertise.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify ethical issues in clinical practice
- Evaluate the relevance of different approaches to ethics to specific issues in clinical medicine
- Analyze ethical issues in clinical care and communicate effectively about the analyses
- Apply analytic framework(s) to resolve competing moral obligations in clinical care
- Consider ethical problems in the larger historical and social context of clinical care
Enrollment Restriction
Enrollment priority given to MBE students