Say you are a physician taking care of a patient in need of a blood transfusion. The patient refuses the blood transfusion on religious grounds, but you know that if he does not get the blood, he may ...

Last week I attended American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. One of the themes running through the event was ethics education. There was, for example, much ...

The Health Policy Pathway teaches students in an immersive, experiential way how to apply policy concepts to current problems and questions in their healthcare environment. The Ethics Thread (ET) is ...

This course is designed for health professions students. It meets the theology ultimate questions requirement and the Identities in Context attribution. Health professionals continually engage with ...

Perhaps no profession has stricter ethical standards than medicine, and ethics is considered essential in the education of any respected medical school. A new essay by researchers at Hiroshima ...

Most if not all medical schools offer at least some introduction to the ethics of health care delivery. But there are skeptics who maintain that medical ethics courses are a waste of time, money and ...

I'm currently teaching a course on medical ethics and telling my students about the movement toward evidence-based medicine. The students are surprised to learn that many medical treatments and ...