This class is designed for students willing to represent the department at the next NAHSE intercollegiate team competition. The course will develop skills at analyzing strategically oriented cases in healthcare management. In addition, students learn presentation skills in a supportive environment with feedback from peers, faculty and alumni.
Students selected to compete at NAHSE and other students selected based on performance in the initial term will be invited to be facilitators in the following winter term.
HMP657
Mastering Ethical Frontiers in Health Care
Winter
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Griffith, John R
Prerequisites: Second Year standing, any UM graduate professional degree
This course will systematically explore important ethical frontiers of healthcareplaces where our usual ethical assumptions do not give a clear answer, or give an answer that a significant number of people might disagree with. It will address between 15 and 20 frontiers. The intent is to develop student insight and comprehension into the processes by which individuals reach ethical decisions and communities reach a stable degree of consensus. A brief case drawn from practice in healthcare or related businesses will introduce each frontier issue. The class will debate and reach a conclusion on (1) What are the best positions/actions for an organization or individual facing the case situation to take? Working from that conclusion, the class will discuss: (2) What are the underlying ethical issues? How completely do our usual ethical assumptions address these issues? What is it that makes the issue frontier? Are there ways to revise the assumptions that might strengthen the specific solution?
Syllabus for HMP657 (PDF,
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