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Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care & Bioethics

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Advancing Compassionate, Ethical, and Humanistic Healthcare

The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics fosters the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for ethical and compassionate healthcare. Through education, scholarship, and service, we prepare students, clinicians, researchers, and community members to navigate the human dimensions of medicine and healthcare. 

By integrating the medical humanities, compassionate care, and bioethics, we seek to cultivate healthcare professionals who are not only scientifically excellent, but also attentive to the experiences, dignity, and values of the people they serve. 

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Our Areas of Focus

Medical Humanities

Medical Humanities

Exploring illness, healing, and the human experience through literature, history, philosophy, and the arts.

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Bioethics

Bioethics

Addressing ethical challenges in clinical ethics, healthcare, research, public policy, and emerging technologies.

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Education

We prepare future healthcare professionals to navigate the ethical, interpersonal, and human challenges of clinical practice through interdisciplinary coursework, graduate education, mentorship, professional identity formation, and continuing professional development.

Master's Program

Master of Arts in Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics

This 30-credit Master of Arts program can be completed in as little as one year, depending on start time.

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Medical Education

Medical Education

The Center is an integral part of medical education at the Renaissance School of Medicine.

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Research & Scholarship

Our faculty and students examine some of the most important questions facing medicine and society, including clinical ethics, medical humanities, compassionate care, professional identity formation, artificial intelligence, neuroethics, health law and policy, end-of-life care, and human dignity.

Recent publications

Recent publications

Our faculty and students publish in a wide range of peer-reviewed publications.

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News and Events

Center Events

Center Events

Join our robust multidisciplinary discussions around the most current topics in medical humanities and ethics.

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