Bioethics Home - UK Program for Bioethics

Welcome to the UK Program for Bioethics website. This program brings people of the UK HealthCare clinical enterprise together with multidisciplinary colleagues with skills and interests in the field of bioethics.

The UK Program for Bioethics is responsible for bioethics education and consultation to the UK HealthCare clinical enterprise and the wider University of Kentucky campus. Our program is also involved in education and outreach for the wider clinical community throughout Kentucky, and we are available as a public education resource on bioethics nationwide. View information on the UK HealthCare Ethics Committee.

Schwartz Center Rounds

Schwartz Center Rounds^® at the University of Kentucky are sponsored by the UK Program for Bioethics in coordination with the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare. Read more about Schwartz Center Rounds and about the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare >>

Schwartz Center Rounds are offered at all three UK HealthCare hospitals. Click below to view the current schedule at each hospital.

Schwartz Center Rounds at Kentucky Children's Hospital

Schwartz Center Rounds at UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital

Schwartz Center Rounds at UK Good Samaritan Hospital
Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds typically fall on the third Tuesday of each month at noon and are open to anyone on campus.

Check out our upcoming lineup of exciting speakers! »

Clinical ethics consultations

We have a clinical ethics consult service that deals with ethical issues and dilemmas in the patient care setting, which may involve patients, family members, the doctor-patient relationship or clinical colleagues. Examples of clinical ethics issues include:

• Confidentiality in the clinical setting
• Diminished capacity to consent
• Informed consent
• Surrogacy issues
• Advanced directives
• Withdrawal or refusal of treatment
• End-of-life decisionmaking

These issues can be complicated by a variety of socio-economic, cultural or language barriers.

Bioethics education

We provide bioethics education to the UK clinical enterprise in the form of grand rounds, graduate medical education (GME) or other continuing medical education (CME) activities. For a list of educational presentations delivered to date, contact the program director. We are also the educational resource for the clinical enterprise surrounding ethics and professionalism, moral distress and moral residue in the clinical setting, and organizational ethics in the clinical setting. Independent study in bioethics can also be arranged for undergraduate and graduate students throughout the university, depending on their program requirements.

Bioethics Film Series

A wide variety of films serve as bioethics teaching aids. The Bioethics Film Series offers a screening and discussion of one film each month. See our lineup of films below. We can also offer bioethics education for any clinical or non-clinical department using any film in our catalog.

Film catalog »

Film list archives »

Upcoming Films: No films are currently scheduled.

Page last updated: 5/6/2013 2:55:40 PM

For a clinical ethics consultation

The Clinical Ethics Consultation Service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We have a rotating service, and a clinical ethics consultant is always on call.

Pager: 859-330-0365
Email: bioethics@uky.edu

For a benchside ethics consultation

The Benchside Ethics Consultation Service is free and available to all University of Kentucky investigators, researchers, students and laboratory staff.

Email: bioethics@uky.edu
Phone: (859) 257-9474

Bioethics events

The UK Program for Bioethics sponsors a number of events that offer continuing-education credit. View all events on the Bioethics Events Calendar, or click on a link below to view events within each individual series.

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

Research Ethics Lecture Series

Schwartz Center Rounds

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Media and Community Contact

For commentary or interviews on issues requiring a bioethics perspective, contact:

UK HealthCare public relations office at 859-323-6363.

Schwartz Center Rounds

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

Clinical ethics consultations

Bioethics education

Bioethics Film Series

For a clinical ethics consultation

For a benchside ethics consultation

Bioethics events

Media and Community Contact