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• Medical Ethics Education in Qatar
• Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Disability
• Attending/House Staff Education
• Faculty Associates Program
• A Revised Hippocratic Oath
• Division Seminar Series
• Medical Ethics Rounds

Medical Ethics: A component of Medicine, Patients and Society II. A six-week survey course in medical ethics for second year medical students. It includes topics such as Medical Ethics in the 20th Century: A Historical Overview; Capacity, Competence, Informed Consent and Refusal; Clinical Pragmatism as a Method of Moral Problem-Solving for Medicine; Decisions at the End of Life: Issues in the Hospital; Ethics in Reproductive Medicine; The Medical Marketplace: Access and Managed Care and Ethics in Pediatrics. This course mobilizes approximately 25 faculty members and hospital staff and constitutes an on-going in-service experience for tutors as well as students.
Course Director: Joseph J. Fins, MD
Core Faculty: Elizabeth Nilson, MD, MPH; Inmaculada de Melo-Martín, PhD, MS; Cathleen Acres, MA, BSN

Medicine, Patients and Society III: Also taught by the Division of Medical Ethics, this required third-year clerkship is designed to promote self-reflective practice and develop competencies in clinical ethics and end-of-life care. To develop their technical skills in pain and symptom management, students participate in palliative care rounds at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, attend case management problem solving seminars in palliative care, and make a site visit to observe hospice care.
Course Director: Joseph J. Fins, MD, Professor of Public Health, Chief, Division of Medical Ethics
Core Faculty: Elizabeth Nilson, MD, MPH; Inmaculada de Melo-Martiín, PhD, MS; Cathleen Acres, MA, BSN; Victor Sidel, MD

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar: Pablo Rodríguez del Pozo, MD, JD, PhD, represents the Division of Medical Ethics in Qatar and in consultation with colleagues in New York, directs the Medical Ethics curriculum. Courses include Medical Ethics and Humanities, for second-year premedical students, and a course in palliative care (under development) for fouth-year medical students.