Clinical and Organizational Rotations in Ethics III

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This course is open only to doctoral students and is ordinarily taken after completion of all required academic courses. The internship consists of clinical placement as ethicist-in-residence in a Catholic hospital. Under on-site supervision the student serves as institutional ethicist in the assigned facility. Duties include education of facility personnel through formal lectures, in-service workshops, teaching rounds, provision of written and audio-visual materials, ethics research for facility personnel, etc.; development of policy on various ethical issues; and prospective and retrospective case consultation. Each unit (three credits) of internship demands approximately 150 hours of work for the assigned facility. The student will particularly focus on Catholic healthcare ethics in his or her reflections and activities.