The BWH Center for Bioethics invites hospital faculty and staff to apply for our Annual BWH Center for Bioethics Award. The purpose of this Award is to to foster expertise in bioethics within the hospital community. (Current BWH Ethics Committee members are not eligible for this award. In addition, staff who have completed the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Medical Ethics, a master's degree in bioethics, or an equivalent educational program are not eligible.)
The Award supports two staff members to attend the Intensive Bioethics Course, offered by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. This internationally recognized course runs June 1-5, 2009. Click here for more information about the Georgetown program.. The recipients of this Award will receive tuition ($1600) and reimbursement for travel and lodging expenses (up to $1200).
Two criteria will be used in selecting the recipients of this Award:
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First, each recipient must articulate how the knowledge gained will help him or her to further the culture and discourse of ethics at BWH.
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Second, the training must enhance the recipient's abilities to contribute an ethics perspective to his or her profession or discipline, thereby fostering the role of ethics in the hospital community as a whole.
After attending the program at Georgetown, award recipients will be expected to:
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serve a three-year term on the BWH Ethics Committee. Ethics Committee meetings take place on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month from 9-10 am. Attendance at no fewer than 50% of the scheduled Ethics Committee meetings is required.
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give a presentation to the BWH Ethics Committee about one topic the awardee was exposed to at Georgetown, with a focus on how this topic might help enhance ethics at BWH.
Applications are encouraged from staff members working in any professional or administrative discipline within the hospital, and are not limited to those with direct clinical, patient-care or research responsibility. Click here for specific application guidelines. The deadline for applications is March 6, 2009. Recipients will be announced by the end of March.
If you have any questions about this Award, please contact Pamela Galowitz at 617-732-8590, or via email at pgalowitz@partners.org.
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