Say you are a physician taking care of a patient in need of a blood transfusion. The patient refuses the blood transfusion on religious grounds, but you know that if he does not get the blood, he may ...

Last week I attended American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. One of the themes running through the event was ethics education. There was, for example, much ...

Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Apr., 2000), pp. 131-136 (6 pages) Educational efforts in bioethics are prevalent, but little is known about their efficacy. Although previous work indicates ...

The Health Policy Pathway teaches students in an immersive, experiential way how to apply policy concepts to current problems and questions in their healthcare environment. Over the course of four ...

Holland Kaplan, MD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Section of General Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this Q&A with ...

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 ...

I was offered the glorious opportunity to be one of the teachers at a medical ethics course a couple of years ago at South Dakota State University. And so the semester began, with 32 eager college ...