A program that focuses on the application of ethics, religion, jurisprudence, and the social sciences to the analysis of health care issues, clinical decision making, and research procedures. Includes instruction in philosophical ethics, moral value, medical sociology, theology, spirituality and health, policy analysis, decision theory, and applications to problems such as death and dying, therapeutic relationships, organ transplantation, human and animal subjects, reproduction and fertility, health care justice, cultural sensitivity, needs assessment, professionalism, conflict of interest, chaplaincy, and clinical or emergency procedures.
Bioethics/Medical Ethics is relatively popular as a minor/second major with 12 people graduating with it as a minor in academic year 2018-19.
| University of Richmond | 17 |
| Houston Baptist University | 9 |
| University of Rochester | 5 |
| Major | Graduates | Colleges |
| Applied and Professional Ethics | 22 | 3 |