One-Year Fellowship Program in Surgical Ethics
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago are pleased to announce a new ethics fellowship training program in surgical ethics.  This fellowship program will build on the MacLean Center’s successful clinical ethics fellowship program which has trained more than 150 academic physicians since 1985.  The goal of this program will be to prepare surgeons for academic careers that combine clinical surgery with scholarly studies in surgical ethics. 

This one-year fellowship will provide clinical ethics training focused on surgery for a junior or mid-career surgeon.  The fellowship will include training in research, teaching, and clinical ethics consultations.  Some special features of the new program will include a monthly surgical ethics conference, a surgical ethics seminar series, and opportunities to develop a new surgical ethics curriculum for residents. 

Surgical faculty from any specialty are encouraged to apply. Applications are due by December 1, 2007. The program will begin on July 1, 2008. A completed application requires a one-page personal statement about career and research interests, a published writing sample, a curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation.  Please send the application to Dr. Mark Siegler and Dr. Peter Angelos at the address below.  The successful fellowship candidate will receive $50,000 for participating in the year-long fellowship training program. 

Please submit completed applications to Dr. Mark Siegler and Dr. Peter Angelos at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, MC6098, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL 60637.  For more information or with questions, please contact Dr. Siegler:  phone:  (773)702-1453 or email:  msiegler@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.

One Year Part-Time Surgical Ethics Fellowship
This program is designed for surgons who are interested in gaining training and experience in surgical ethics. The program begins with a six-week, full-time intensive introduction in July and August. From September to June, fellows meet one day a week for a structured ethics curriculum including Topics in Clinical Ethics, Conceptual Foundations of Health Law, Analytic Philosophy, Surgical Ethics, and research-in-progress seminars. Fellows also participate and are supervised in a busy ethics consultation service. Working with faculty mentors in surgery, each fellow will design and carry out a research project. No stipend is available for this fellowship program. The application deadline has been extended to March 1, 2008.

Please click here for application instructions.