Medical Ethics
Seminars, workshops and medical rounds will address topics from among the following:
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?
- Patient Autonomy
- 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
Psychiatry and Health Psychology
- Stress and Trauma
- Competency and Behavior Modification
- Self Control and Temptations
Fertility & Birth Control
- Surrogate Motherhood
- Abortion
Jewish Thought
Classes and seminars will be selected from among the following…
Tours & Hiking
Tours and hikes will be selected from the following National Parks, museums and historic and archeological sites…
