Programs

Offers academic and clinical services to faculty and staff at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.

Inviting the community’s voice into the dialogue of medical ethics within the institutional healthcare setting.

Ethics consults are an important service provided to the patients and staff at Yale New Haven Hospital by the Adult and Pediatric Ethics Committees.

This 2-week course is offered in January, Monday through Friday 10 am to 2 pm. A small group of students meets daily with different faculty members to strengthen their foundational knowledge of the field, and explore specific areas of bioethics, such as ethical issues in obstetrics, emergency medicine, pediatrics, patient’s rights, public health, policy development, clinical consultations, and many others.

The Introduction to the Profession course (iPro) is intended for entering medical students. Bioethics topics include: What does it mean to be a professional?; Making the invisible visible; Fatal Invention discussion.

The Professional Responsibility course examines many of the moral, legal, economic, social, and structural aspects of the health care system in which students will be immersed in now and during their career. This course examines the moral and ethical context of the practice of medicine, or what society expects of physicians in addition to our purely technical skills – including how we comport ourselves, how well we communicate, what our obligations to our patients and communities are, and how well we live up to them.

The Program for Biomedical Ethics and Yale Pediatric Ethics Program host 90-minute sessions with speakers, typically twice per month during the academic year, with dinner provided. They include a didactic talk by a visiting scholar or a member of the Yale faculty, followed by a 45-minute discussion. These sessions provide a rich exposure to a wide variety of topics in bioethics and are open to all members of the Yale community and the public.