Medicine, Culture, and Ethics

This online CME accredited course explores common ethical dilemmas in medicine. Medical Professionals can earn up to five CME credits per course in this series.

Each course in Medicine, Culture, and Ethics surveys ethical dimensions of medical practice and the traditional Jewish perspective on the issues. Doctors will gain a cultural sensitivity that will enhance their interaction with Jewish patients and their clergy.

Course Topics:

Patient Autonomy

Organ Transplant

Experimental Treatments

Reproduction and Infertility

Mental Disabilities

Patient Confidentiality

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"A fascinating course that will shed light on key questions" The Hon. Tevi D. Troy, PhD
"[This course] applies Jewish medical ethics to some of the most salient moral issues in medicine today" Paul S. Appelbaum, MD
"[This course] discusses many of the most relevant and fascinating current medical ethics issues. It will be of great help to doctors, patients and their families." Kenneth Prager, MD, FACP
"Enhancing knowledge will contribute towards patients having more comfort with treatment options and towards the medical community gaining a better understanding of religious patients and more sensitivity to their concerns" Alan B. Copperman, MD
"The content is truly unique, yet obviously relevant to the issues facing physicians daily." Paul Root Wolpe, PhD
"These materials place some of the most urgent contemporary problems of medical ethics into the context of one of the world's oldest and most sophisticated ethical systems." Daniel D. Polsby, JD
The course clearly incorporates all the key themes of modern medicine and the ethical challenges that we face... There is a great need for people to think through these issues and be equipped to make choices. June Jones, PhD, MSc
"As a pediatrician, the necessity of education in the field of medical ethics is all too real for me. It is clear that a thorough and multi-faceted approach to these questions is vital." Rachel D. Rosenbaum, MD