Sample Fellowship Curriculum Topics

The following are some examples of topics covered during the program. Topics and lecturers for future sessions are dependent on scheduling availability.

  • Physician Aid-in-Dying taught by Brendan Abel, legal counsel at Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Rationing taught by Robert Truog, former director of the Center for Bioethics and Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesia & Pediatrics
  • Neuroethics taught by Thomas Cochrane, director of medical affairs at Biogen
  • Ethical Issues in Genomics taught by Ingrid Holm, pediatric endocrinologist and geneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical 
  • Narrative Ethics taught by Martha Montello, lecturer, Harvard Medical School and Editor-in-Chief, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Other topics have included:

  • Assisted Suicide and Organ Donation
  • Informed Consent
  • Race, Religion, and Social Justice
  • Health Care Reform