Introduction to Clinical Ethics

Harvard HMS

Introduction to Clinical Ethics is a core course in the Masters of Bioethics program at Harvard Medical School. There are 14 modules covering major principles and themes in Clinical Ethics (e.g., consent, futility, physician-assisted suicide, advance directives). Each module includes preparatory work of various types (e.g., readings, videos, surveys) followed by a two-hour interactive case-based live session. The live sessions are centered around one or more cases and are modeled on…