Learning outcomes

• Students can understand, analyze and apply HCE theory and methods to major topics and issues in contemporary healthcare ethics.

• Students can analyze critically the relationship of HCE with multidisciplinary fields in healthcare (empirical research, law, medicine, philosophy, religion, science and technology) as well as a global enterprise (using research from anthropology, sociology, political sciences and international human rights law).
• Students can examine, analyze scholarly research and write scholarly essays and papers as a result of the research.
• Students can integrate academic learning with experiential learning in clinical or organizational rotations as a function of service-learning and development as an HCE professional.
• Students can function as an HCE expert and provide ethical leadership with knowledge, skills, competencies and character traits in diverse settings such as ethics committees, institutional review boards and ethics consultations.
• Students can foster co-curricular practices for life-long learning to personally value and engage the clinical, organizational and professional components of HCE in a global context.