DPAM-5104 Health Care Ethics
Prerequisites: Admission into the DPAM program. This course is designed to provide the student with an appreciation of the basic knowledge and skills in ethical theory and reasoning, professional ethics, and approaches to healthcare decision-making. It will focus on a four-step method of analyzing an ethical problem, which includes (1) medical indications, (2) patient preferences, (3) quality of life, and (4) contextual features meaning social, economic, legal, and administrative context in which the case appears.