Medical Ethics Syllabus
Jewish Medical Ethics & Israel Experience Program

Seminars and workshop groups will be selected from the following topics:

    Emergency Care

  • Allocating Scarce Medical Resources

Genetic Engineering

  • Stem Cell Research and Cloning
  • Genetic Screening

    Medical Experimentation

  • Human Experimentation
  • Animal Experimentation
  • Prescribing Experimental Drugs

    The Ethics of Managed Care

  • Navigating HMO's


    When Physician Meets Patient

  • The Rapport with Patients: How Attached Do We Become?
  • Diagnosing and Reporting Child Abuse
  • Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  • Disclosure to Patients
  • Visiting the Sick
  • Medical Malpractice

  • When Life Ebbs

  • Caring for the Terminally Ill
  • Euthanasia: Kevorkian and the Right to Die
  • Prolonging Life & the Quality of Life
  • Withholding Medical Treatment
  • Determining the Time of Death
  • Suicide

  • Ethical Issues in Applied Medicine

  • Organ Transplants
  • Treating Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Managing AIDS Patients
  • Alternative Medicine and When to Prescribe

  • Fertility & Birth Control

  • Surrogate Motherhood
  • Abortion












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