Global Healthcare Ethics
Provided by University of Liverpool School of Medicine
About the course
Course overview
With an increasingly mobile population across the world, healthcare professionals, more than ever, need to manage a broader range of health care problems. This course has been designed to address these challenges and will provide you with a greater understanding of the complexities of socio-cultural factors across different countries, enabling you to develop your skills in complex decision making and ethical reasoning.
Introduction
This MSc Programme will provide the opportunity to explore and understand ethical challenges of healthcare delivery in a global context.
Its unique design focuses on bioethical issues as they appear in practice and goes beyond it by exploring how different cultures and healthcare systems tackle these problems. At the same time, the programme provides a greater understanding of socio-cultural and economic aspects of healthcare at a global level.
‘Global Healthcare Ethics’ has a very personalised/flexible design with a core of applied clinical ethics and additional options. In order to accommodate different professional and personal needs, the programme has a flexible blended learning structure that gives students the opportunity to engage with ethicists and health professionals and to share their experiences and ethical dilemmas.
This programme is unique in that it will apply ethical principles to everyday practice and will explore the moral problems encountered by health care professionals across a range of clinical scenarios, e.g.: reproductive technology, genetics, mental health, children in research, health records and ethics of patient’s data, and end of life care. Another unique point is its delivery in an international environment where students from across the world share their experiences and best practice.
Students will refer to examples connected with clinical practice (from their area of work both in the UK and overseas): ethical dilemmas in connection with patient expectations, difficult clinical decisions, the ethics of new biomedical technology, communication technology and e-health etc.
This programme will be taught by a wide range of clinicians and research experts across health and key clinical research programmes within the University of Liverpool and the wider hospital communities.
Who is this course for?
This MSc Programme is designed primarily for healthcare and allied healthcare professionals but welcomes intercalating medical and dentistry students and other home and international students with interests in global healthcare issues, including those from relevant humanities subjects.
What you'll learn
- How to understand and integrate ethical values in a global context (e.g. black bioethics)
- Critical thinking and evaluation
- Ethics reasoning
- How to apply ethics to healthcare and biomedical research
- How to deliver best ethical decision making
- Legal and societal aspects of healthcare practice
- How to explore moral problems encountered by healthcare professionals
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01 Sep 2025 | Distance learning | Book now |