Global Medical Ethics

Its unique design focuses on bioethical issues as they appear in practice and goes beyond it by exploring how different cultures and healthcare systems tackle these problems. At the same time, the program provides a greater understanding of socio-cultural and economic aspects of healthcare at a global level.

Key facts

• ‘Global Healthcare Ethics’ has a very personalised/flexible design with a core of applied clinical ethics and additional options. In order to accommodate different professional and personal needs, the program has a flexible blended learning structure that gives students the opportunity to engage with ethicists and health professionals and to share their experiences and ethical dilemmas.
• This Global Medical Ethics program from University of Liverpool is unique in that it will apply ethical principles to everyday practice and will explore the moral problems encountered by health care professionals across a range of clinical scenarios, e.g.: reproductive technology, genetics, mental health, children in research, health records and ethics of patient’s data, and end of life care. Another unique point is its delivery in an international environment where students from across the world share their experiences and best practice.
• Students will refer to examples connected with clinical practice (from their area of work both in the UK and overseas): ethical dilemmas in connection with patient expectations, difficult clinical decisions, the ethics of new biomedical technology, communication technology and e-health etc.
• This program will be taught by a wide range of clinicians and research experts across health and key clinical research programs within the University of Liverpool and the wider hospital communities.

Courses include:

• Applied Ethics for Clinical Practice

• Global Bioethics

• Intercalated Global Medical Ethics

• Health Sciences

• Intercalating Students Placement/negotiated Learning Experience