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

Save the Date! Information on our Third Annual Summer Workshop in Clinical Ethics is here:

Assessing Decision Making Capacity

Our annual workshop for ethics committee chairs, members, and other health care professionals will be held June 14, 2008. For more information or to register, click here.

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Program News

Program hosts Quality Colloquium

On January 24 & 25, we hosted 7 scholars and professionals from all over the US to discuss the lack of ethics indicators within the realm of quality improvement. A follow up meeting to this will be held in November.

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Bioethics Currents

Current issues in biomedical ethics from around the world.

  • New York Times, 3/21/2008
    Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccine
  • National Public Radio, 3/19/2008
    New Ob/Gyn Guidelines Stir Ethics, Legal Debate
  • New York Times, 3/19/2008
    For Top Medical Students, an Attractive Field
  • New York Times, 3/18/2008
    New Jersey to Consider Health Plan to Cover All
  • New York Times, 3/16/08
    Cutting Dosage of Costly Drug Spurs Debate
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    The Planetree of Kos
    This the Planetree of Kos, Greece, under which Hippocrates taught, "Be of benefit and do no harm."























































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