Clinical Ethics

Catalog description

The student is mentored in a bioethics project to be determined during the first week of the clerkship. The student’s clinical exposure, observation, and training in clinical ethics consultation with the preceptor is at an approved clinical site. Typical themes addressed during the clerkship are: clinical ethics consultation; hospital ethics policies; practices of bioethics in a nonprofit ethics organization; particularized learning to be done in consultation with the preceptor (e.g., end of life, disparities, medical futility, etc.). Repeatable for credit with permission