Past News and Events

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October 8, 2025, 12:00pm

Join us on Wednesday, October 8th @ 12PM with Sara Kolmes, PhD, HEC-C, for a discussion of “The Ones We Can’t Fix”: Using Structural Competency to Think About Hard Ethics Cases. 

 

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September 24, 2025, 5:00pm

Apply to our flexible, online program to become certified for Advanced Training in Healthcare EthicsImprove patient care, be an ethics committee member, or become an ethics consultant. 

Program dates:

Promotional graphic for the Department of Bioethic’s online certificate program in Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics. Describes three clinician-friendly courses: Theory, Clinical and Organizational Ethics, and Methods, plus a Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics. Highlights program features such as distance learning format, flexible scheduling, and continuing education credits up to 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Includes application information and contact email BHConfEd@uw.edu.
September 15, 2025, 12:00am

Advance your career with healthcare ethics! 

Applications are open for the Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics certificate program offered by UW Medicine's Department of Bioethics & Humanities.

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September 10, 2025, 12:00pm

Join us on Wednesday, September 10th @ 12PM with Arika Moore Patneaude, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C for a discussion of "Justice & Equity: Attending to Silenced Voices in Ethics."

 

Through analyzing the practice of land acknowledgments, this presentation seeks to inspire ethicists to acknowledge the harm of impartiality as a core concept of justice. Through engaging in self-reflection, examination of, and interrogation of the justice principle that ethics as a field can elevate silenced, marginalized, and excluded voices.

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August 4, 2025, 8:00am

The annual Summer Seminar is an intensive, interactive introduction to the 'four-box method' of analysis of ethical problems in clinical ethics, developed by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade in their book Clinical Ethics. The Seminar also addresses elements of the Core Competencies in Health Care Ethics Consultation and can help attendees prepare for the healthcare ethics consultation certification exam.