Health Professions Education, Ethics, and Humanities

A program that focuses on the application of ethics, religion, jurisprudence, and the social sciences to the analysis of health care issues, clinical decision making, and research procedures. Includes instruction in philosophical ethics, moral value, medical sociology, theology, spirituality and health, policy analysis, decision theory, and applications to problems such as death and dying, therapeutic relationships, organ transplantation, human and animal subjects, reproduction and fertility, health care justice, cultural sensitivity, needs assessment, professionalism, conflict of interest, chaplaincy, and clinical or emergency procedures

A program that focuses on education and administration leadership skills for clinical educators across health professions and specialties. Includes instruction in academic leadership, assessment, clinical decision making, curriculum development, ethics, primary care education, program evaluation, research methods, and statistics

Examples:   Teaching Certificate for Pharmacists,   Medical Education Teaching

A program that prepares registered nurses to teach in academic and clinical settings, including staff development. Includes instruction in advanced nursing practice, nursing role development, curriculum and instruction, program and course design, clinical instruction, and evaluation of learning

A program that explores the ethical, historical, literary, philosophical, and religious dimensions of medicine or health. Includes instruction in art, cultural studies, economics, ethics, history, literature, medical anthropology, philosophy, religion and spiritual thought, science and technology, visual art, and writing

Examples:   Narrative Medicine

A program that focuses on the historical evolution and socio-economic context of medical theories, education, practices, and technologies; and on the history of diseases, therapeutics, patients, and healers. Includes instruction in the concepts and methods of the historiography of medicine; the history of science, medicine, and technology; and of research methods in the history of medicine

A program that focuses on the design, implementation, and management of programs that use the visual and performing arts in support of health and wellness among diverse individuals and communities. Includes instruction in dance, literary arts, music, theatre, healthcare systems, program administration, and public health

Examples:   Theatre for Health,   Visual Arts in Medicine,   Dance in Medicine,   Music in Medicine,   Arts and Health,   Arts in Healthcare,   Arts in Public Health

Any instructional program in health professions education, ethics, and humanities not listed above