The Clinical Ethics Fellowship offers a two-year intensive educational and clinical program. This fellowship teaches the requisite and advanced competencies and skills necessary to be a health care ethics consultant and to be the next generation leader in clinical, health care, and bioethics. The fellowship provides opportunities for participating in adult and pediatric clinical ethics consultations, research and experience working in one of the world’s top cancer centers.

Program Goals & Objectives

The goal of this fellowship is to teach the requisite and advanced competencies and skills necessary to become a proficient healthcare ethics consultant. Fellows will undergo a structured and guided participatory program with training in the clinical setting on communication, leading family meetings, and conducting adult and pediatric ethics consultations.

The objectives of this fellowship are:

Demonstrate competencies in clinical ethics consultations: consultation process, documentation, communication, and conducting family meetings.

Be able to build and lead a clinical ethics consultation service or program.

Create and implement research and quality improvement (QI) projects.

Be competitive for a position as a professional clinical ethicist or as a faculty member in bioethics.

Eligibility 

All applicants must meet the following requirements:

• Possess a terminal degree in an academic or professional discipline with preference given to candidates with doctorates in bioethics, philosophy, theology, nursing, behavioral sciences, social sciences, medicine or law.
• Have experience participating in clinical ethics consultations or relevant clinical disciplines.
• Be able to demonstrate written, and verbal communication skills and conflict resolution.
• Able to work collaboratively and independently.