CLINICAL ETHICS - INDIVIDUAL AND POPULATION CONSIDERATIONS
Examine how ethical issues in clinical practice affect public health outcomes. Gain an understanding of the ethical frameworks and practices that are employed in medicine, in order to understand the complex interplay between public health and clinical care. Develop the ability to identify the ethically salient features of a patient case and to employ ethical analysis to generate recommendations that improve public health outcomes.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: MED SC-M 810 , 811 , 812 , and 813 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of the interplay between clinical ethics as an applied domain grounded in clinical practice, and public health as the pursuit of health and wellbeing for all members of society Audience: Graduate 2. Critically assess how the public health principles of trust, interdependence, and distributional justice are affected by clinical ethics principles such as beneficence and autonomy. Audience: Graduate 3. Clarify diverse moral and cultural values that generate various clinical ethics and public health tensions. Audience: Graduate 4. Identify the ethically salient features of a clinical case and evaluate their implication on moral decision-making and public health outcomes Audience: Graduate 5. Clearly and concisely articulate issues related to public health and clinical ethics Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of the interplay between clinical ethics as an applied domain grounded in clinical practice, and public health as the pursuit of health and wellbeing for all members of society Audience: Graduate 2. Critically assess how the public health principles of trust, interdependence, and distributional justice are affected by clinical ethics principles such as beneficence and autonomy. Audience: Graduate 3. Clarify diverse moral and cultural values that generate various clinical ethics and public health tensions. Audience: Graduate 4. Identify the ethically salient features of a clinical case and evaluate their implication on moral decision-making and public health outcomes Audience: Graduate 5. Clearly and concisely articulate issues related to public health and clinical ethics Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027