Bioethics, or medical ethics, is the study of the moral and ethical issues in the fields of scientific research, medical treatment or, more generally, in the life sciences. With advancing technology and modern innovations, new and exciting insights are being gained for many scientific processes and diseases, but at the same time, new questions of medical ethics continually arise.

We don't have a structured major in bioethics because many advisers to the program have argued, successfully for the time being, that students need the focus and depth that more traditional majors provide.

Just contact Carolyn Randolph, our Program administrator at: 512 Cabell, cbr8d@virginia.edu, 924-7868. You will then receive periodic updates on special events, guest speakers on grounds, course lists for registration, and notification of webpage updates. In general, no. Only under extraordinary circumstances--e.g., no regular electives available, an impressive reading list, a guarantee of close faculty supervision, etc.--will such a substitution be contemplated.

Senior Associates are not permitted to register for MBE courses. You should contact the Penn College of General Studies for more information about bioethics opportunities. Unfortunately, we do not have funding for MBE students. We do have a scholarship for MD/MBE students, and we have a small MBE Travel Fund that all current MBE students presenting at conferences can apply for.

Given the many pressing challenges facing public health in Latin America and the Caribbean, bioethics might seem, to a layperson, a secondary concern best left to academicians. Not so, says Dr. Fernando Lolas, director of PAHO's Regional Program on Bioethics. Far from being merely an arcane philosophical niche with few real-life applications, he says, bioethics offers the most incisive and socially inclusive way of examining the pressing moral issues raised by medicine and public health today.

The Bioethics Program evolved out of several components, the oldest of which is The Health and Human Values Lecture Series, which at almost three decades old and may be the oldest continuing lecture course in bioethics. Its name, "'Health and Human Values" reflects the terminology used at the time to characterize what we describe what we today call "bioethics.

This online MA program is designed primarily for professionals with advanced degrees who have a significant interest in bioethics.

As of June 2006 the Union Graduate College (the degree granting part of all previous partnerships) has conferred 27 MS Degrees in Bioethics, 3 Certificates in bioethics (clinical ethics), and one honorary doctorate of letters, to the distinguished bioethicist, Robert M. Veatch, one of the founders of the field.

No. There is no distinction made on the degree. Your master's degree is awarded based on competency and successfully meeting Loyola University Chicago's academic requirements, not upon geographic location or residency.

Linda Anderson, one of the lead teachers on the High School Bioethics Curriculum Project, knows that students can develop a variety of skills through using bioethics cases studies and discussions found in the High School Bioethics Curriculum. She identifies the following teaching goals and student skills that can be met using the Curriculum: Teach the integration of other academic disciplines and life experiences into classroom thinking and argumentation

In many states and in many fields the MS degree is a recognized in the health professions. Aligning itself with other fields in the health professions, The Bioethics Program Masters is registered with the New York State Department of Education as an MS degree.