Help with Difficult Decisions: Pediatric Ethics Committee Faculty and Staff
Ethics Education
As part of its education mission, the PEC offers staff and community educational presentations upon request. These presentations are provided in lecture, “mock meeting” and informal brown bag formats. To request an educational session, e-mail the PEC.
Additional educational opportunities within and outside the University of Michigan:
- Bioethics Grand Rounds
- U-M Bioethics Program: Established by the U-M Medical School in 2000, the Bioethics Program aims to become a national leader in empirical and theoretical inquiry in bioethics. Areas of focus build on the University's strengths and include: empirical research in bioethics; ethics and health care decision making; ethics of health policy and management; ethics education - innovation and evaluation; and ethics of advances in medical science. Learn more.
- Life Sciences Values and Society Program: This program was established in 1999 to engage all units of the University and the public in the social and value issues raised by life science advances. Learn more.
Ethics Related Web Sites:
- UMHS Ethics and Humanities
- UMHS Ethics Policies and Procedures (note- links on this page are available only to machines that are part of the University of Michigan network):
- MERN-Medical Ethics Resource Network
- The National Institutes of Health Bioethics Resources
- The American Journal of Bioethics:
- The Hastings Center
- Bioethics Discussion Page
- The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Ethics and Humanities Interest Group
- The American Academy of Pediatrics; "Informed Consent, Parental Permission, and Assent in Pediatric Practice"
