对于准备进入卫生保健行业的学生而言，是个不错的计划。学生将能够识别，分析和解决在照顾患者时可能发生的道德，政策，文化和社会冲突。这些未来的卫生专业人员将能够确定和促进政策和实践，以确保以对社会和道德负责的方式进行科学研究，提供医疗保健和技术创新。他们还将赞赏在文化和社会背景下如何进行生物科学和医疗保健，以及文化如何与个人的疾病经历和医学实践方式相互作用。
Great program for students preparing to enter the health care industry. Students will be able to identify, analyze, and resolve moral, policy, cultural, and social conflicts as they might arise in the care of patients. These future health professionals will be able to identify and promote policies and practices that ensure scientific research, health care delivery, and technological innovation are conducted in a socially and ethically responsible manner. They will also appreciate how bioscience and health care take place within cultural and social contexts and how culture interacts with an individual's experience of illness and the way medicine is practiced.<br>Students must complete two of the following three certificates: 15CERT2-BIOE (Bioethics), 15CERT2-MEDH (Medical Humanities), 15CERT2-MINH (Minority Health). In addition students musts complete a minor in Anthropology, English, History, Philosophy, or Sociology OR complete 15CERT2-PMED (the premedical certificate). Credit hours may vary according to the choices students make. For each certificate or minor included in this degree program, at least 9 credit hours must apply only to that certificate/minor and not to either of the other two. Each certificate/minor must include at least one course at the 3000 level or above.