Programs

Adult Ethics
The Adult Ethics Committee at YNHH - a consulting body
Pediatric Ethics Program
Offers academic and clinical services to faculty and staff at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.
Community Bioethics Forum
Inviting the community’s voice into the dialogue of medical ethics within the institutional healthcare setting.
Bioethics Interest Group
A student-run interest group
Clinical Ethics Consult Elective
Ethics consults are an important service provided to the patients and staff at Yale New Haven Hospital by the Adult and Pediatric Ethics Committees.
Bioethics Elective
This 2-week course 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.
Profession Lectures
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.
Professional Responsibility Course
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.
Evening Seminar Series
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.

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.