Surgical Ethics Program
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and the Department of Surgery are pleased to sponsor a program in Surgical Ethics. This program explores ethical issues that arise in the practice of modern surgery. The program includes:
- Weekly seminary series on Surgical Ethics
- MacLean Conference on Surgical Ethics
- Monthy ethics case conference for residents and faculty
- New ethics curriculum for surgical residents
- New fellowship traing program for surgeons
Directors
Fellowship
One Year Part-Time Surgical Ethics Fellowship
This program is designed for surgeons 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. Those interested in a part-time ethics fellowship with a surgical focus should apply using our general fellowship application.
One-Year Fellowship Program in Surgical Ethics
This fellowship program builds 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 provides 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. The program includes 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. Those interested in an ethics fellowship with a surgical focus should apply using our general fellowship application.
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