HHV 711 Medical Ethics
This clerkship offers an intensive hands-on experience, under the supervision of seasoned clinical ethicists, through which students can explore their own moral context, more reasoning, and ability to conduct moral analysis in the context of clinical medicine. Students will have the opportunity to direct some of the clerkship themselves toward ethical issues that they bring to the clerkship. In addition, the course director will seek to provide students some contact with physicians who practice in the area students chose for their residencies. Further, they will be able to make field trips to hospitals associated with the Rush Health Care System and to work with the ethicists at those sites: Copley Memorial Hospital, Rush North Shore, and others as they become available. Third-year medical students who have an interest in taking this course in their fourth year are encouraged to keep notes on encounters that have been ethically significant. Keep in mind not only situations about which you have ethical concerns but also those that exemplify the quality of care that you are preparing to provide. Prerequisites: senior level students only. FA WI SP SU [2 weeks]