The UVA Center for Health Humanities & Ethics is a diverse interprofessional community of scholars, teachers, and practitioners whose interests in the human dimensions of illness, health, and health care bridge clinical and social sciences, arts and humanities, ethics and law, philosophy and religion.
Our mission is to demonstrate the complementary nature of our disciplines while furthering their productive integration and application in the classroom and clinic, at the bedside, and in the community.
The center offers ethics and humanities education for medical students, residents, and faculty in many different formats and venues. In addition, center faculty teach graduate and undergraduate courses in biomedical ethics and humanities across a number of UVA schools and programs.
The Center for Health Humanities and Ethics (CHHE) in the UVA School of Medicine invites applications for the 2025 Health Humanities and Ethics Summer Internship Program. Interns will have the opportunity to work closely with CHHE’s multidisciplinary faculty on a wide range of topics in the health humanities and clinical, research, and health policy ethics. These include but are not limited to interprofessional health humanities and ethics education, health equity education, representations of health disparities in art and literature, narrative medicine, primary care health policy, home-based medical care, reproductive ethics, clinical ethics consultation, ethical issues in adolescence, and end-of-life decision making. Interns will work directly with faculty mentors on projects of mutual interest or pre-established projects. Find more information here
About
The UVA Center for Health Humanities and Ethics is a diverse interprofessional community of scholars, teachers, and practitioners whose interests in the human dimensions of illness, health, and health care bridge clinical and social sciences, arts and humanities, ethics and law, philosophy and religion.
Education
The Center for Health Humanities and Ethics offers ethics and humanities education for medical students, residents, and faculty in many different formats and venues. In addition, Center faculty teach graduate and undergraduate courses in biomedical ethics and humanities across a number of UVA schools and programs. Many of these courses are cross-listed in different disciplines to foster interdisciplinary and interprofessional education.
Moral Distress Consultation Collaborative (MDCC)
The Moral Distress Consultation Collaborative (MDCC) is an interprofessional, multi-institutional community of leaders in moral distress consultation with the exciting goals of establishing best practices in MDC, conducting novel and innovative research, developing effective mechanisms for training new consultants, and providing resources for new and developing MDC programs.
