The Center Education Committee coordinates a number of activites within the Center and the University. The primary formal educational activity within the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is the medical student course, Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine. A required medical student course since 1990, it is blended into each clinical clerkship in the third year. During each clerkship, the students meet first for a semi-didactic class discussing ethical issues relevant to that clinical discipline. They then write up a case from their own clnical experience and present it at a second session later in the clerkship. Many of the members of the Education Committee are faculty for the course and on the course steering committee.
Another function of the Committee has been development of electronic information systems (such as these WWW documents). Because of the decentralized nature of teaching hospitals in Buffalo, and the interdisciplinary composition of the Center, electronic communications and information transfer have become important tools. The Center Gopher has been an important element in sharing information by teachers of biomedical ethics. It includes an area about Teaching Biomedical Ethics. This area includes a Syllabus Exchange Project, and the University of Toronto Ethics OSCE by Dr. Peter Singer.
This page was last updated 7/15/95.