Ambulatory Pediatrics with a Bioethics Concentration

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This course will build on the ethics lessons already built into the medical student curriculum, assuming that students will already be familiar with the basic principles of healthcare ethics. This course will add an opportunity for students interested in bioethics to take those often didactic lessons and apply them in a clinical setting. The vast majority of hospital ethics providers are providers of medical and pastoral care in the hospital, using their clinical expertise to apply to ethics questions. Like most hospital ethicists, in this rotation, students will be involved in the day-to-day clinical work of the hospital provider, with the added emphasis on ethical reflection. The clinical practice of healthcare ethics requires the ability to do thoughtful literature review, perform an ethics consult, reflect on the ethical practice of medicine and participate in multidisciplinary discussions with others in the hospital. The goal of this course is to give medical.