PRMD 5000
Ethics in Health Care
Students must become skilled in ethical decision-making to become successful physicians. This requires that students have access to an integrated and comprehensive ethics, law and humanities curriculum during their four years of medical school. This course is the bedrock of that comprehensive curriculum.

PRMD 6607
Current Legal Issues in Health Care
This course combines law students and health sciences students in the same class room to discuss some of the most difficult issues of contemporary health law and policy. Students consider access inequality; cost containment in both public and private insurance programs; litigation as a quality regulation method; the managed care revolution and backlash; and the debate between government vs.. market regulation of the health care system. Throughout the course, students are urged to consider their professional roles in contributing solutions to the issues discussed.

PRMD 6608
Ethical and Legal Issues in Public Health, Health Policy, and Epidemiology
This course explores the ethical and legal dimensions of various topics of concern in the areas of public health, health policy and epidemiology. The following are some of the topics which will be covered: health care reform and medical indigency, screening and genetic screening, epidemiological research, public health and individual rights, and public health in developing countries.

PRMD 6623 (cross-listed as PSCH 6623)
Literature, Medicine, and Ethics
Novels, essays, short stories, poetry, and film are used to explore themes in medicine. Patient-professional relationship, professional values, death and dying, compassion, and ethical dilemmas in health care are examined.

PRMD 6632
Special Topics in the Medical Humanities
Film, literature, and special guests provide an opportunity to reflect on the place of the humanities in health care education and clinical work.