Perspectives on Ethics in Health Care

Catalog description

This is an Institutional Priority course that develops key competencies in critical thinking and oral communication through an introduction to ethics in health care. This course includes additional online modules to support Institutional Priority Learning Outcomes and Career Competencies. The course offers an opportunity for students to apply critical thinking skills to ethical issues in health care and to gain experience in developing and presenting original arguments in oral forms. This course reviews the ethics of decision making within America's health care system. Ethical theories will be investigated and medical principles explored. Critical thinking skills will be explored for dealing with facts, concepts, basic principles, and ambiguity within the context of the ethical theories and medical ethical principles.