European Master in Bioethics
CONCEPT
Health care professionals and others professionally interested in medical ethics find themselves increasingly confronted with moral questions and dilemmas. Such complex issues challenge the people who have to deal with them every day. They require careful study and well-considered judgement, as well as rigorous questioning and thorough debate.
Nowadays ethics education has become part of the curriculum of most European Health care training programmes. However, until now a concentrated grouping of such initiatives was lacking. That now has changed with the European master in Bioethics programme. For the first time several eminent European universities and institutes have combined their efforts in the field of bioethics by developing a two-year master's programme that focuses on all issues currently relevant to bioethics.
PROGRAMME
The European Master in Bioethics programme consists of five introductory and eleven specialized courses comprising a total of 1800 student working hours. The sixteen courses are offered in four residential months spread across the two-year period of training, which is giving alternatively in one of the following participating universities: Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Basel (Switzerland), Leuven (Belgium) and Padova (Italy).
March 2004 Nijmegen (The Netherlands) September 2004 Basel (Switzerland) March 2005 Leuven (Belgium) September 2005 Padova (Italy)
During the periods between the residential months, participating students are expected to study in their own working environment, preparing papers based on course work or their own practical experience.
RESIDENTIAL VENUES
Due to the intensive nature of the programme, both training and residential accommodation will be housed together in an appropriate center in the four participating cities. It is also envisaged that this arrangement will further encourage the exchange of ideas among participants.
MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.masterbioethics.org
____________________________________________________ Pascal.Borry@med.kuleuven.ac.be Tel: 32 (0) 16 33 29 17 or 32 (0) 16 33 69 51 Fax: 32 (0) 16 33 69 52 Work Adress: Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law Catholic University of Leuven Kapucijnenvoer 35 B-3000 Leuven http://www.masterbioethics.org http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/cbmer