The center's clinical ethics personnel engage in scholarship focusing on the practice of clinical ethics consultation as well as on the challenging theoretical questions that arise in the clinical ...

Our fellows’ day varies depending on whether they are “on-service” or “on-call” or not. When a fellow is on-service, he or she is working in our hospitals doing clinical activities. “Clinical ...

This is the initial article in an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles will consider the ethical ...

A study published in Critical Care Medicine examined the outcomes associated with clinical ethics consultation — an intervention for supporting patients, family and staff during ethically challenging ...

As part of our Traditional Program Requirements, Clinical Ethics Rotations are a feature of our program that sets us apart from other Bioethics and Medical Humanities masters programs. These rotations ...

University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University are thrilled to celebrate the launch of the UH/CWRU Center for Clinical Ethics, a groundbreaking collaborative effort that seeks to elevate the ...

Aria Trivedi is a biology major with a minor in biotechnology, and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

The field of medical ethics encompasses the principles and values that govern clinical practice, research, and public health policy. It seeks to balance the physician’s duty to care and ‘do no harm’ ...

The scenario plays out countless times across hospital corridors: A medical student observes an attending physician dismissing a patient’s concerns, a resident falsifying documentation, or a colleague ...

Madeline Eiken was a Hackworth Fellow for the 2018-2019 school year. She graduated from Santa Clara University in 2019 where she majored in bioengineering and minored in chemistry. She was awarded the ...

Editor’s Note: Ira Bedzow, Ph.D., is an associate professor of medicine in the School of Medicine, the director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program, and head of the UNESCO Chair in ...

A doctor and medical educator discussed medical practice and ethics during the Holocaust and warned against recreating them in modern medicine at a seminar to commemorate International Holocaust ...