UCHSC The Center for Bioethics and Humanities
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CORE MISSIONS
  1. Be an educator: To educate health profession students and health care practitioners to address ethical issues, to adopt high professional standards, and to exhibit a proper balance between the humanities and sciences.
  2. Be a convener: To create a space and forum for convening broad cross-sections of professionals, administrators, trustees, academicians, and government and community representatives for honest, credible problem solving of moral issues in health care.
  3. Be a source of knowledge: To create, advance and disseminate knowledge in bioethics and humanities.
  4. Be a resource to others: To share our expertise in bioethics and humanities with health care institutions, health care professionals, ethics committees, IRB's, administrators, trustees, policy makers, scientists, organizations, and individuals.
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