Research Seminar in Bioethics

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Pre-requisites: BIET 6005, BIET 6009, BIET 6015, BIET 6025. The course provides an integrative experience in which the students can apply concepts acquired in bioethics theoretical courses in order to develop a research project or a practicum experience in a health services institution. The students will select a t opic relevant to bioethics, to conduct a research or a service project with publishable results. Project could be on topics of student’s interests, related to organizational ethics, clinical bioethics, social bioethics, research ethics, intellectual foundations of ethics, and others. The course consists of seminars, independent study, and presentations of student’s projects. Students will conduct their projects with the assistance and supervision of a professor expert in the topic. At the end of the course, the student will present their projects orally and submit a written document that can be published.