Becoming A Clinical Ethicist: A Step-by-Step Guide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2024
- 00:00 What a clinical ethicist does
01:41 Different paths
02:40 How I became a clinical ethicist
04:59 Terminal degrees
05:49 Undergrad
10:05 Grad school
16:43 After grad school
19:15 Get some mentors
Some master of bioethics programs:
jcb.utoronto.ca/education-tra...
bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/edu...
land.sps.columbia.edu/bioethics/
Intensives:
bioethics.yale.edu/programs/s...
bioethics.jhu.edu/education-t...
www.bcm.edu/academic-centers/...
Here's where to find clinical ethics jobs:
bioethicstoday.org/jobs/
www.bioethics.ca/jobs-in-bioe...
Dear Professor. I am an international student doing my undergrad degree in Human Biosciences (former biochemistry). I am also doing a minor in Gender Studies, and currently I am doing a second year Philosophy course on Health Ethics. Initially when I came to Canada, I did feel very displaced and at different points of university, I felt overwhelmed by my degree time to time. Which is why, my grades have been average. I am working very hard to bring my grades up. However, it was not until last semester (I am in my third year), I got a newfound love for health sciences. And since the last semester, I have been trying my best to make sure I can make a career in Healthcare, and my initial plan has been Health Ethics, or Clinical Ethics. I stumbled upon your video as I was going through one of those nights thinking if I will ever make it in life, or if my career plan will ever take off. I am working towards a Masters in Health Ethics. I am also currently working remotely with a governmental project for people with learning disabilities as a Mentor and a Screener.
I want to know if my CGPA don't get up to 3.5 or above out of 4, should I still keep my hopes to work as a Health Ethicist in the future? Are there any advises you would like to give me besides the ones in the video? Thank you for taking the time to read my comment.
You can absolutely do it! Keep at it and get the best grades you can. I didn't do well in my first couple years of university, but it's more important to have an upward direction and an upward trajectory. It's common for people to have a tough time in their first year or two, and you've been through more moving to Canada.
One thing to look into is a reading course with a professor, which is a one-on-one course that lets you focus on a topic you're interested in. It's great experience and it also makes it easier to get a strong letter from a professor, which you'll need for graduate school. Best of luck!
Wonderful advice professor. As always, your talks are fascinating!
Thanks so much!
Great advice! Would you recommend going through law school only for the sake of doing bioethics afterwards? What was your friend's reasoning for getting the JD?
The law school + master of bioethics route has some advantages. Some schools let you combine them, which saves some time, and having a JD is also useful if you’re interested in legal policy or academic law, even you don’t actually practice law. Basically every lawyer I know says that law school is more fun than being a lawyer, so doing the JD without practicing law is the best of both worlds!
Got it! I am a philosophy and math undergrad with a great interest in ethics. I've thought about going the JD route, but I hesitate because I want to work with people on an intimate level (like a clinical ethicist) and it seems like the jobs one would get after receiving a JD wouldn't serve that end. Furthermore, I don't have much interest in legal policy, etc; that is why I am very intrigued by your friend's getting the JD even though it wasn't for its own sake. Any thoughts on this? Thanks again for the videos and your responses-it is extremely helpful. @@ValueJudgments
Some types of law would give you interactions with people. For instance, I know an immigration lawyer who essentially gets life stories from people so she can make their immigration cases. Law is a tough gig though. Clinical ethics is definitely an option if you want interactions with people. I've met all kinds of people I never would have met otherwise, and the conversations are very intimate. Many clinical ethicists end up doing some hospital policy work too, but that's usually a smaller component of the job.
Some great clinical ethicists have a JD. The downside of doing a JD for clinical ethics is that it can be tempting to lean more heavily on the law, but the law and ethics aren't the same. People with medical training have a similar problem: in their role as a clinical ethicist, they can't give medical advice, even when they know the answer. Similarly, people with legal training might know what the law says, but have to refer the person to a lawyer. This isn't an insurmountable problem, but it's worth keeping in mind. Best of luck! @@joea5809