Master of Bioethics Programme
Admissions Open for March 2012 Session
Aga Khan University Medical College invites applications for a two-year master’s programme in Bioethics. The first year of this programme is mainly course work at the University’s Stadium Road campus in Karachi; in the second year, students are required to develop a research proposal.
Eligibility
Professionals, including physicians, nurses, researchers, pharmacists, hospital administrators, health ministry officials and policy makers, lawyers, medical journalists, social scientists, philosophers and others, who have completed at least 16 years of education and possess a desire for an in-depth knowledge of bioethics, are invited to apply.
Students meeting the above mentioned eligibility criteria from resource-poor countries covered by World Health Organization’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) are encouraged to apply.
Educational expenses for selected candidates, including tuition fee and course material, will be covered through a training grant from the Fogarty International Centre of the National Institutes of Health, USA. Candidates selected from outside Karachi will also receive a one-time return air/train/bus ticket reimbursement and a monthly stipend.
The Programme
The Master of Bioethics (MBioeth) programme educates and trains individuals in the philosophical underpinnings of ethical discourses from Muslim and Western approaches, including moral philosophies, to identifying and analysing ethical dilemmas in research involving human participants and encountered in clinical practice. Students will establish and be a resource for research ethics and clinical ethics review committees in their own institutions; develop a bioethics curriculum and teach bioethics at undergraduate and graduate level; analyse health-related policies in line with an ethics framework; study clinical and research settings from a human rights perspective; and will conduct research in bioethics.
Closing date for applications: Thursday, December 8, 2011.
Admission information and programme details, along with an application form, are available at:
For further details please contact Registrar’s Office at + 92 21 3486 4410 or 3486 4412; Bioethics Unit +92 21 3486 5521/5522/5527 or via email (preferred): arshi.farooqui@aku.edu
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