DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL HISTORY AND ETHICS

Syllabus

Paradigm - 4 Boxes

Handouts

Outlines

Clinical Ethics Web Site

Course Description:

The purpose of this course is to introduce first and second year medical students to the basic language, concepts and principles of medical ethics. The approach taken is a case-study method, designed to help students develop skills in the analysis of case problems in clinical medicine.

Students will find this course particularly useful in preparing them for ethics-research related to future cases they will encounter in Problem Based Learning (PBL) & in the clinical clerkships.

The course is two (2) credits and will meet from 10:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m. on Wednesdays in Room E-212. There will be no final exam, although students will be required to turn in a three to four page "case write-up" in which a case is described and briefly analyzed, concluding with the student's suggested resolution as a demonstration of his/her competence in using the skills learned in this course. Alternatively, some students may prefer to make an oral presentation of their case in class during one of our sessions later in the quarter. A model approach for either oral or written cases will be presented in class, using the "4 boxes" paradigm described under "tools" on the bioethics website, and in Clinical Ethics.

Instructor:

Thomas R. McCormick, DMin

Health Sciences Building
Room A-204-Q
phone: (206) 616-1820
email: mccormic@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

© 2003, Department of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington. This page last updated September 24, 2007 .