Clinical Bioethics and Professional Conduct

Catalog description

This didactic year course is designed to help the student develop an appreciation of bioethics in clinical practice by exploring the role of human behavior, philosophical, religious, psychosocial, and legal impacts on medicine and practice. This course will provide examinations of impacts on the medical community by considering common clinical questions and challenges that risk complicating healthcare delivery. Particular consideration will be lent to patient and family impacts of privacy, clinical and patient integrity, decision making capacity, informed and implied consent, medical documentation, end of life and treatment of limited and complex patient, broadened and limited scope and responsibility, and advocacy of the patient and the healthcare teams. Prerequisite: Acceptance to the Physician Associate Program. Co-requisites: PAS 614 , PAS 624 , PAS 625 , PAS 626 , PAS 627 .