BIOE 5103 - Preclerkship Bioethics I

Institution:

Yeshiva University

Subject:

Bioethics

Description:

This course provides an introduction to the field of bioethics for first-year medical students. Its goals are to enable students to anticipate and identify ethical issues in clinical encounters; to help students develop moral reasoning skills so that they can work through ethical dilemmas in a sensitive and analytical manner; and to identify and analyze ethical issues associated with the information students are learning simultaneously in the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course and in their basic science courses. These issues include medical student-patient relationship, medical student professionalism, ethical issues in human genetics, informed consent, research ethics, conflict of interest, and ethical issues at the end of life.

Credits:

1.00 - 2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.yu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 960-5400

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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