The center's clinical ethics personnel engage in scholarship focusing on the practice of clinical ethics consultation as well as on the challenging theoretical questions that arise in the clinical ...

Our fellows’ day varies depending on whether they are “on-service” or “on-call” or not. When a fellow is on-service, he or she is working in our hospitals doing clinical activities. “Clinical ...

Evan Hackstadt is a computer science major with minors in biology and math. He is a 2025-26 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his ...

This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional ...

he ethical guidelines laid out in the Hippocratic Oath nearly 2,500 years ago are about to collide with 21 st century artificial intelligence (AI). AI promises to be a boon to medical practice, ...

The scenario plays out countless times across hospital corridors: A medical student observes an attending physician dismissing a patient’s concerns, a resident falsifying documentation, or a colleague ...

As data analytics and other digital innovations become more widely adopted in healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI) will move from an administrative role to a clinical decision-making support role.

Madeline Eiken was a Hackworth Fellow for the 2018-2019 school year. She graduated from Santa Clara University in 2019 where she majored in bioengineering and minored in chemistry. She was awarded the ...

BEIJING — A powerful new national medical ethics committee, which will approve all clinical trials involving high-risk biomedical technologies, is at the center of a regulatory shakeup Chinese ...

Decisions in contemporary medicine can be complex and overwhelming. An ethics consultation service helps patients and doctors navigate value-laden conflict and uncertainty and helps determine which ...

As part of our Traditional Program Requirements, Clinical Ethics Rotations are a feature of our program that sets us apart from other Bioethics and Medical Humanities masters programs. These rotations ...