MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM
The Department of Bioethics offers a graduate program leading
to the degree of Master of Arts in Bioethics. Bioethics has
blossomed into a major area of scholarly inquiry over the last
three decades. Professionals from public health, medicine, nursing,
the life sciences, law, social work, management, public policy,
the social sciences, philosophy, religious studies, and other
areas, have contributed to the field. The program at the CASE
School of Medicine emphasizes the interdisciplinary and interprofessional
nature of the field and is designed to provide advanced training
in bioethics for students and professionals who anticipate encountering
ethical issues in the course of their primary careers. The program
has the following objectives:
To provide students with a firm understanding of the intellectual
content of bioethics. This will require both that the students
develop familiarity with the bioethical literature and the underlying
philosophical arguments and empirical assumptions that inform
it.
To allow students to understand the institutions and structures
of healthcare and how they affect the ethical issues that arise
in medical practice. This requires that students develop some
understanding of the doctor-patient realtionship, the effect
of healthcare teams on the care of patients, and the changing
social and political environment of medicine.
To train students to identify and analyze a range of actual
in-the-wards problems involving ethical issues and to prepare
them to reflect critically upon the various methods of bioethics
employed in the clinical setting, the scholarly literature,
and health policy development.
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