Navigating Ethics in the Healthcare Workplace & Marketplace

Overview

Class Central Tips

This course seeks to stimulate creative thinking and learning for you as a working professionals while offering practical guidance for improved decision-making in both common and novel ethical business situations. You will look at navigating ethics as related to issues associated with the governance of medical organizations, end-of-life care, and an array of especially difficult issues in the healthcare environment. We hope this course will help you re-examine your own thoughts and ideas about ethics and reflect on whether the course content has enlarged your sense of moral suasion.

Syllabus

Module 1 — Ethics and Governance

This module introduces you to the course and is then focused on ethical issues associated with the governance of medical organizations, especially at the board level.

Module 2 — End of Life Care

This module is focused on the ethical issues of end-of-life care. It discusses the medical, social, economic, and humanitarian issues that arise. It also touches on the ethics and legality of physician assisted suicide and euthanasia.