Center for Health Humanities & Ethics

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.

Center’s Statement on Structural Injustices in the COVID-19 Era

2023 HEALTHCARE ETHICS AND MORAL DISTRESS CONSULTATION INTENSIVE TRAINING SEMINAR

This in-person, intensive 4-day training program is designed for multidisciplinary practicing healthcare professionals who wish to develop or deepen their healthcare ethics and moral distress consultation knowledge and skills or prepare for the healthcare ethics consultation certification exam. The training is grounded in the ASBH core competencies for healthcare ethics consultation and will emphasize the four content domains for certification determined by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘Milk Tongue’ A New Book of Poetry by Irène Mathieu

Women In Medicine Month Recognizes Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D., FCCM, HEC-C

2023 HEALTHCARE ETHICS AND MORAL DISTRESS CONSULTATION INTENSIVE TRAINING SEMINAR

Interview: How Two Physicians Make Climate Justice Part of Patient Care with Irène Mathieu and Neelu Tummala

A Special Medical Center Hour with Dasha Kiper Author of Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain

Pediatric Ethics: Theory and Practice

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