Bioethics

College of Medicine - Phoenix

Training and education in ethics have proven to be instrumental in making difficult moral and ethical decisions for the best and proper patient care.

Serving emerging and seasoned health professionals in Arizona and globally, the Master of Arts in Bioethics advances the study of ethics and how to approach scarce resources, equity, diversity, and inclusion in healthcare. This program explores how ethical issues influence decisions that shape our minds, lives, and society. Bioethics is a discipline dealing with biological research and applications' social, legal, and ethical implications, especially in medicine. It includes medical ethics, which focuses on issues in healthcare, research ethics which focuses on the conduct of research; and public health ethics which addresses ethical issues in public health.

The program aims to give clinicians, social workers, chaplaincy, nurses, and others the background and training to teach ethics, ethics research, ethics consultations, and difficult bedside ethical issues. In addition, the program focuses on the partnership of healthcare and ethics by bringing together liberal arts disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology of science, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, with the expertise from the University of Arizona, College of Medicine–Phoenix faculty, and other key university partners.

*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.