Medical Ethics
Issued by
Kansas State University
Healthcare earners certify their ability to reason critically and communicate clearly about ethical issues in health care. Beyond respect for patient autonomy, this includes consideration of inter alia, the reasoning methods appropriate to navigating apparent conflicts between the ethics of care and deontic or utilitarian obligations, distributive justice with respect to both access to and provision of health care, and conceptions of disease and medicalization of behavioral patterns.
- Type Validation
- Level Foundational
- Time Months
- Cost Paid
Earning Criteria
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Successful completion of courses in: Moral Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Medical Ethics
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Constructed critical essays demonstrating an understanding of the duties of medical professionals according to distinct moral theories, including deontic, utilitarian and ethics of care theories.
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Applied conceptions of morality, including conceptions of rights, perfect and imperfect obligations, and duties of beneficence to ethical issues arising in medical professional-patient relationships.
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Applied conceptions of distributive justice, including libertarian, utilitarian and Rawlsian theories, to policy issues in health care.