BTHX 5100 | Introduction to Clinical Ethics
Jan. 19 - May 3
Spring Semester Registration:
For Degree or Certificate Programs: Opens Tuesday, November 10
For Non-Degree and Visiting Students: Open Friday, December 4
Healthcare is full of gray areas, high stakes situations, and tensions between personal and professional values. This course explores the moral nature of the healthcare professions and common values-based conflicts in clinical practice. By examining everyday cases, exploring current issues in healthcare, and developing habits of reflective practice, learners will have the opportunity to recognize and respond to moral uncertainties that arise in the interprofessional clinical environment. The course presents practical knowledge and skills needed for ethics deliberation and decision making. This is a blended instruction course where students can expect a majority of sessions held in-person and occasional online sessions. *Course has been approved for Interprofessional Education (IPE) credit for health professions students.
These courses welcome learners from various disciplinary backgrounds and are open to graduate students, professional degree students, and upper-level undergraduate students from the University of Minnesota and other institutions. They are also open to learners who are not currently in degree programs but wish to take courses, so long as they meet course prerequisites.
About the Instructor
Dr. Henriksen is a Senior Clinical Ethicist at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and an Affiliate Faculty member at the Center for Bioethics. She performs bedside consultation to support patients, their families, and clinical teams in the process of moral deliberation. Her research interests include conflicts of conscience of healthcare providers, proactive strategies to reduce ethical conflict, truth telling and requests for non-disclosure of medical information. She enjoys teaching about ethics to trainees as well as working clinicians.