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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

  1. Students are required to attend FOUR Ethics Grand Rounds by the end of their third year.

  2. Submission of an Ethics Case Analysis Paper by the beginning of the fourth year (due no later than July 11, 2008).

Description of Program Requirements...

Ethics Grand Rounds
As you become responsible for some patient care or move closer to that responsibility, participation in discussions regarding the ethical dilemmas arising from patient care is important.  At ethics grand rounds, you will see how faculty and guests approach the resolution of difficult ethical issues in patient care, and you will be able to enter a discussion of the case.  The objective is that this experience will assist in your practice and help you acquire an ease in addressing ethical and public policy issues.

  • Students need to attend FOUR Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy sponsored grand rounds by the end of their third year. Approximately twelve Bioethics sponsored grand rounds are scheduled each year.

  • Announcement posted in advance on the Neiswanger Institute of Bioethics & Health Policy web-site.

  • Attendance recorded by SIGN-IN SHEET for each Bioethics Grand Rounds.

  • Click here for an up-to-date schedule of Ethics sponsored grand rounds.

 

Third Year Required Ethics Paper
At the end of your third year, you will have gained sufficient clinical experience to reflect on the ways in which ethical decision-making is a part of medial practice.  Hence, an ethical problem you have encountered in your rotations provides an opportunity for you to apply a process of moral decision making.

  • To be completed in the Junior year. However, it must be submitted no later than the beginning of the fourth year (July 11, 2008).

  • Pass/Fail grading system. Grades will be reported to the Registrar in September and will appear on the official transcript.

  • Click here for Ethics Case Analysis paper requirements.


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