Medical Ethics
Our objective is to use the tools of medical ethics to enable students to provide compassionate and just care to every patient. The Center of Humanism faculty takes a leadership role in designing and integrating medical ethics and law curriculum across all four years of medical school, and they support student-led ethics groups on campus.
Faculty also conduct research on a range of bioethics topics, often collaborating with medical students. Recent and on-going projects include:
- The impacts of biomedical ethics curriculum as it relates to enhancing tolerance for ambiguity
- A scoping review on the state of ambulatory ethics as a field of practice
- The ethics of hospital design and how institutions enhance or limit mental health patients’ well-being and autonomy
Medical Students
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Medical Students
All CMSRU students engage in discussions and analysis of biomedical issues that relate to patient care, medical practice, and research. By graduation all students will have a comprehensive understanding of the four pillars of medical ethics, key aspects of medical law, and an application of ethical approaches to medical decision making.