By engaging students in ethics and the humanities, the Pathway cultivates practitioners who see patients as whole people and practice medicine with deeper empathy, cultural awareness, and ethical insight.
The Ethics, Humanities, and Health Law Pathway offers an integrated curriculum that enriches medical education through sustained engagement with ethics and the humanities, including philosophy, literature, history, art, religion, and related disciplines. Grounded in the tradition of medicine as a learned and humane profession, the pathway promotes ethical reasoning, professional identity formation, and reflection on the human dimensions of clinical care.
The pathway is developed in close collaboration with the Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy (IBHP) and the Department of Medical Education, and aligns with national efforts to strengthen professionalism in medicine. Students pursue projects that address contemporary issues in medicine using humanities-based methods, with ethics serving as a central and unifying focus.
- Director: Melissa Fellman, MD
- Co-Director: Rosario Isasi, JD, MPH
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