Admissions criteria include academic training, professional experience, grades, test scores, and commitment to the field of bioethics. Professionals from public health, medicine, dentistry, nursing, the life sciences, law, social work, management, public policy, the social sciences, philosophy, religious studies, and other areas have contributed to the field of interprofessional nature of the field, and includes a significant clinical component. M.D. All graduate students complete the interdisciplinary core, Foundations in Bioethics, which extends over two semesters. This seminar is taught by faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and covers basic topic areas in bioethics including method and theory in bioethics, genetics, reproduction and fertility, the therapeutic relationship, biomedical research ethics, healthcare justice, public health and health policy, organ transplantation, pediatric ethics, and death and dying. They will become familiar with the clinical, psychological, social, professional and institutional context in which ethical problems arise.
Students also attend didactic sessions on clinical ethics consultation and hospital ethics policies.
In addition, students complete 12 credit hours of electives chosen from courses offered across the University. I the field of bioethics and are relevant to the student's academic goals. Copyright 2000, The American Philosophical Association.