20 Years
Advances in Medicine By Kristen A. Schmitt There has never been a more critical time for bioethics. As new telehealth measures, vaccine development, resource allocation and other healthcare policies, agendas and action plans emerge, those trained to decipher ethical dilemmas become an invaluable resource on the frontlines. Bioethics practitioners help answer ethical questions within the healthcare system that span research, public health and clinical work and can go beyond the healthcare industry into academia, policymaking and community engagement. This year, Clarkson is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its bioethics graduate program, which includes doctors, nurses, lawyers and other professionals among its graduates. The program is offered jointly with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “Our students are interested in better understanding how to handle difficult ethical conflicts,” says Paul Cummins, a research assistant professor of bioethics at Clarkson. “Students who enter the program directly after completion of their undergraduate degrees are often interested in obtaining the master’s degree or graduate certificate to make them more appealing in their medical or law school applications, especially if they plan on focusing on the humanistic components of medical care or health law, respectively.” And the current bioethics coursework offered through the program is highly relevant with
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