The Program in Medicine & Human Values at California Pacific Medical Center provides medical ethics consultation for professionals and families, a variety of sponsored continuing education activities for practicing health care professionals, resources through our special library collection, research, and regional ethics resources.

Program News

We have concluded the data collection phase of our study, Proactive Ethics Intervention to Improve ICU Care. Check back for updates and results.

Creighton University announces its online Master's Degree in health care ethics.

Bioethics Currents

Current issues in biomedical ethics from around the world.

• Reuters, 14 July 2010
  Palliative care lacking in much of the world
  
  
• MSN, 14 July 2010
  Korean doctors can remove life support
  
• Renal & Urology News, 12 July 2010
  The Ethics of Discontinuing Dialysis
  
• BBC News, 12 July 2010
  NHS 'to undergo radical overhaul'
  
• Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 9 July 2010
  How clinicians make (or avoid) moral judgments of patients: implications of the evidence for relationships and research