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