Master Degrees in Bioethics in Europe 2021

The future of medicine and clinical bioethics means that this field needs more and more professionals trained to make informed ethical decisions and who can participate in committees, work as consultants and be teachers in bioethics. Ethical conflicts in medicine are more and more frequent and have a high impact on decision-making. It is essential to have professionals trained to face the growing challenges of medicine today and tomorrow. The "Master in Clinical Bioethics" enables people to work in clinical bioethics by performing ethical advisory and consulting tasks (in Ethics Committees, in Ethics Consulting or in Ethical Mediation), to initiate lines of research in clinical bioethics, a field of enormous future, and to be a teacher in bioethics, both undergraduate and graduate. The multidisciplinary nature of the contents and the transversality of the teaching methods, make the Master an excellent opportunity for professionals of any degree related to the clinic, ethics, health law and deontology: medicine, nursing, psychology, dentistry, pharmacy, physiotherapy, social work, law, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, among others. The Master is aimed both at professionals who are in an early phase of their career with concerns about clinical ethics, as well as professionals with experience who want to improve their knowledge about the main ethical problems of medicine and experts in clinical ethics who want expand your training. Therefore, it has been designed with newly graduated professionals in mind as well as other more expert ones. -

The main objective of KU Leuven's Advanced Master of Science in Bioethics (MBIO) is to train highly qualified students for research work or professional activities in the domain of bioethics, an interdisciplinary field that studies value questions that arise in health care, public health and biomedical research. -

The training will take place entirely in distance mode by giving the student the material published in book format (IFBN the Ministry of Culture, personalized paperback) and in pdf format in a pendrive with a tablet or laptop (choice) and assessment will be enabled platform to reflect the effect of interactions between tutor-student / a, which are reflected the ... -

It is an Interuniversity Official Master (University of La Laguna, University of Las Palmas) taught in mixed mode. Teaching is online classroom sessions and two intensive weekend (Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon). -

Bioethics is a discipline with a growing presence in the bio-sanitary field and in society in general. Advances in the field of genetics and the beginning of life, health priorities, public health issues, organ transplants, AIDS, degenerative diseases and disabilities, therapeutic limitation or decisions at the end of life, are some of the issues that frequently raise ethical conflicts and questions without obvious answers. Alongside these great questions, we are presented with others related to the growing recognition of the rights of patients that has led to a change in the health-related and greater involvement in decision-making, both for the patient and the family. Issues such as informed consent or conscientious objection take on a clear role. Against this background, the health professional and other professionals involved in these areas, request training related to these ethical aspects of the profession. -