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BIE 500 - Proseminar in Health and Human Values
ONE- WEEK ON-SITE SEMINAR (summer)
Baker, Rhodes, Greenlaw, Lederer, McCullough, Veatch
An intensive one-week introduction to current topics in clinical ethics and bioethics, taught seminar style at Union Graduate College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. This overview of current issues in bioethics humanities involves four special seminars, case conferences and ethics rounds. There will also be training in the computer skills (demonstrations, workshops) essential to mastering distance learning. This must be taken in the first fifteen months of enrollment.
BIE 510 - Biomedical Ethics
FALL, ON-LINE
Baker
An advanced historically based introduction to bioethics and clinical ethics focusing on such formalizations of medical morality as the Hippocratic Oath, the AMA codes, the Belmont Report and Beauchamp and Childress Principles, and the idea of casuistry. Major cases in bioethics will also be reviewed and the evolution of the core concepts and infrastructure of medical ethics and bioethics will be examined.
BIE 520 - Health Care Policy
WINTER, ON-LINE
Strosberg
This course provides an understanding of the public policy making process and the political and regulatory environment in which health care organizations function. It also provides an understanding of managerial processes, politics, and structure of the health care organizations where ethical policies and practices are implemented and carried out on an ongoing basis. Policies for consideration include resource allocation, end-of-life decision-making, accountability and performance measurement, and conflict-of-interest.
BIE 530 - Bioethics and the Law
SPRING, ON-LINE
Ouellette and Greenlaw
This course is designed to familiarize students with major legal issues and legal concepts relevant to bioethics.
BIE 545 - Reproductive Ethics
SUMMER, ON-LINE
Steinbock
An investigation of the ethical and legal problems associated with new reproductive technologies and genetics. Elective course
BIE 555 – Research Ethics I
FALL, ON-LINE
Gligorov, Rhodes and staff
Focuses on analyzing individual cases, making informed and reasoned judgments about the proper conduct of research, and developing the skills and knowledge base essential to designing and developing education in, and professional awareness of, research ethics.
BIE 565 - Research Ethics: Empirical Research Methods in Bioethics
FALL, ON-LINE
A course in empirical research methodology designed to teach how to conduct empirical research in the field, and how to analyze the empirical bioethics literature. Elective course
BIE 580 - Research Ethics II
WINTER, ON-LINE
Philpott, Gligorov, and staff
Teaches students about the ethics and policies governing scientific research, particularly research involving human participants or animal subjects. This course builds upon the knowledge and themes introduced in BIE-555 (Research Ethics I). Research Ethics II covers these topics in greater depth and explores the key U. S. and international laws and policies that regulate the design, conduct, and oversight of trials involving human participants or animal subjects. In addition, students examine in-depth specific areas or types of biomedical research that are potentially controversial or ethically problematic.
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WINTER, ON-LINE
Gligorov and Rhodes
This course deals with the practical applications of clinical ethics, including clinical ethics consulting and its recording and documentation, the work of ethics committees and IRBs, and other practical ethics of clinical ethics.
BIE 610 - On-Line Clinical Practicum
SPRING, ON-LINE
Orr
A supervised practical experience in clinical ethics designed to teach skill in clinical ethics consultation. Supervision by on-line faculty and mentors.
BIE 610R – On-Line Practicum in Research Ethics
SPRING, ON-LINE
Philpott
Exposes students to the process of ethical review of research involving human volunteers or animal subjects, and helps students develop some of the basic skills that a working research ethics professional needs. Through on-line discussion and participatory exercises, students gain a practical understanding of: (a) research ethics committee structure and function, (b) applicable state and federal regulations regarding the conduct of research involving human volunteers or animal subjects, and (c) relevant organizational and management skills needed to lead a research ethics committee. In addition, students are taught practical skills in qualitative and quantitative research, report and grant writing, and bioethical training and education.
BIE 620 - On-Site Clinical Practicum
SPRING, ON-SITE, (ONE WEEK LATE MAY OR EARLY JUNE) AT MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Rhodes, Philpott and staff
A supervised practical experience in clinical ethics designed to teach skills in clinical ethics consultation. Prerequisite: BIE 590 (MED 202)
BIE 620R – On-Site Practicum in Research Ethics
SPRING, ON-SITE, (ONE WEEK LATE MAY OR EARLY JUNE) AT MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Rhodes, Philpott and staff
Helps students develop and refine the practical skills introduced in BIE 610R (On-Line Practicum in Research Ethics) through hands-on experience. These skills include: teaching and education, review and oversight of institutional research projects involving human volunteers or animal subjects, and sound management of the research endeavor, including organizational management and policy analysis, arbitration, and mediation.
BIE 630 & BIE 640 - Masters Project
WINTER & SPRING, ON-LINE
Philpott and staff
The masters project in bioethics, clinical ethics, or research ethics, will involve two terms of research culminating in a written document addressing some aspect of clinical ethics or bioethical policy, such as a proposal to revise or reform practices at a medical institution or managed care organization, or a proposal to change bioethical policy.
BIE 650 - Capstone Practicum
SPRING, ON-SITE, (ONE WEEK EARLY JUNE PRIOR TO GRADUATION)
Baker, Rhodes and staff
Capstone in which students demonstrate their mastery of clinical ethics consultation or research ethics practice, and present their masters project to other students and their advisors.
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"I can honestly say that I would not be at Harvard, or have the opportunities to do such fascinating research, if it were not for the education and mentorship provided to me by the Union Graduate College Bioethics Program. Dr. Robert Baker, Ph.D., director of the bioethics program, is a highly-respected philosopher and leader in bioethics. He, along with many other members of the UGC faculty, fostered an excellent educational environment for me to learn about the fundamentals of bioethics. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at UGC."
