Clinical and Organizational Rotations in Ethics IV

Catalog description

This course is open only to doctoral students. It follows course HCE 781. The internship consists of clinical placement as ethicist-in-residence in a Catholic hospital. The student will focus on Catholic Healthcare Ethics. The three credits internship demands approximately 150 hours of work for the assigned facility. The course is the 4th component of the new Clinical and Organizational Rotations in Ethics (CORE), effective Fall 2008. The acronym helps to focus on the crucial core significance of the Rotations in our Degree Programs. The clinical component is so inter-woven with the organizational component in health care that the Rotations focus upon the dynamic relationship between clinical, organizational, and professional ethics.