Education for Heath Professionals and Everyone Else
Drawing on decades of experience, our faculty integrate bioethics and health humanities content for health professional learners in a variety of different programs and at different stages of educational development. Our faculty deliver innovative curricula that focuses on the collaboration among clinical learning, policy education and health professional ethics. We extend education beyond the classroom and into the community through engaging programs that inform and empower the public on key issues.
Engaging a Full Spectrum of Learners
The Graduate Certificate in Bioethics and Humanities in Health: Our graduate program offers multiple options for individuals working in health fields. Take one class, complete the entire graduate certificate, or build a foundation for advanced training.
Minor in Health Humanities: This undergraduate interdisciplinary program at the CU Denver campus equips students with a comprehensive understanding of how different disciplines approach health and medicine. It includes attending events at the CU Anschutz School of Medicine campus, such as lectures in the Arts and Humanities series, Mini Med School and other special programming.
The Center's faculty work with learners in the School of Public Health, the Graduate School, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and many other programs and units across the Anschutz Medical Campus; here are just a few examples:
Interprofessional Education Program: Ethics and Values
Pharmacy and Ethics Webinar Series: Ethics, Policy, and the Future of Pharmacy
Physical Therapy Program: Illness, Disability, and the Individual Seminars
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine residency program: Professional Ethics” and “Research Ethics
Plains Pre-clerkship Curriculum: Interprofessional Healthcare Ethics and Health Equity
Undergraduate Medical Education: Humanities, Ethics, and Professionalism Thread
Advanced Ethics in Leadership program: Provides customizable training for leaders to navigate high-stakes ethical challenges confidently.
American Jewish Experience in Medicine program: Expands awareness of Jewish history in health sciences to address contemporary challenges and foster multicultural understanding.
Clinical Ethics Ambassador Program (CEAP): Equips healthcare professionals with core ethics knowledge to proactively recognize and address ethical concerns, fostering a culture of accountability, dialogue, and ethical awareness across the UCHealth system.
Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics program: Educates and engages health professionals on Holocaust lessons to ensure they uphold their duty to protect patients.
National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry (NCHED) is a joint initiative with the University of Texas Health, the University of Rochester and Loyola University to create unique and valuable opportunities for reflection, learning and teaching on ethical issues in dentistry
Public Health Ethics & Law program: A joint initiative with the Colorado School of Public Health to inform public health policy and practice, leveraging CU Anschutz relationships and guided by an advisory board for health justice.
The National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry
The National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry (NCHED) aims to create unique and valuable opportunities for reflection, learning and teaching on ethical issues in dentistry and to stimulate progress nationwide in using arts and humanities to improve dental practice, research, policy and education.
Examination of ethical issues in dentistry tends to revolve around a few commonly-taught scenarios, but an increasingly wide variety of issues are arising at the intersection of dentistry and ethics, business, public health, research and more. This collaborative program aims to fill these gaps by providing thought-provoking and expert-informed enduring content that will be of value as the profession of dentistry evolves to meet the increasingly complex needs of patients and society.Focus on the potential for dental faculty and practitioners to drive positive change as science, business and health care adapt to meet the needs of the communities they serve.
Identify and address emerging ethical issues in dental policy and practice, focusing on areas where arts and humanities interventions may benefit patients and practitioners.
Learn from interdisciplinary connections between dentistry and other professions to generate insights into challenges and opportunities facing dentists today and in the future.
Build a community of stakeholders interested in exploring solutions to deep-seated quandaries related to humanities and ethics in dentistry.
Explore connections between the past, present, and future, in recognition that present circumstances were created through historical policy and practice and understanding history can inform current and future strategies for improvement.