A fellowship that offers an intensive experience in clinical medical ethics, ethics consultation, and empirical ethics research

The full-time Clinical Ethics Fellowship training is intended to provide the scholar with an immersive and rigorous experience.

Full-time fellows will not only participate fully in the part-time fellowship described below, but they will also be fully immersed in the activities of the MacLean Center for an entire year. Full-time clinical ethics fellows will engage in ongoing mentored clinical ethics research with MacLean Center faculty. They will regularly round in hospital units to facilitate interactions between clinicians and ethics consultants. There is also the possibility of extending the fellowship to a second year.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

The program begins with a four-to-five-week, full-time Summer Intensive Clinical Ethics Course beginning in July. During the Summer Intensive, fellows attend 3-4 seminars daily for small group sessions to obtain the foundational background in multiple areas of clinical medical ethics including: clinical ethics consultations, pediatric ethics, surgical ethics, reproductive ethics, how to reduce health disparities and advance health equity, transplantation ethics, and multiple other topics.

Following the Summer Intensive, with faculty supervision, full-time fellows will engage in ethics consultations and rounding on designated inpatient hospital units. They will also participate with faculty in mentored clinical ethics research. Research could be quantitative empirical bioethics and/or analytic explorations of critical clinical ethics topics.

In addition to the activities noted above that will be throughout the year, from September to June, fellows will also formally meet one day a week on Wednesdays along with the part-time fellows for a structured ethics curriculum including Topics in Clinical Medical Ethics, Introduction to Moral Philosophy, and Research-in-Progress seminars.

WHO CAN APPLY

We welcome those interested in clinical medical ethics from any perspective, including medicine, philosophy, nursing, and the social sciences. This program is designed for those hoping to make clinical ethics a major focus of their professional lives. The fellows receive a salary and benefits commensurate with University of Chicago fellowship standards.

We strongly encourage candidates from groups that have been underrepresented in medicine and related fields due to discrimination and structural barriers, who have experienced socioeconomic disadvantage, or who have disabilities to apply.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please contact Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS, MAMSE, Director of the MacLean Center, with inquiries about the fellowship pangelos@bsd.uchicago.edu.