Program for Bioethics and Patients’ Rights

Welcome to the website for the University of Kentucky Program for Bioethics and Patients’ Rights. This Program brings the people of the UK HealthCare clinical enterprise together with multidisciplinary colleagues with skills and interests in the field of bioethics. This Program is responsible for bioethics education and consultation to the UK HealthCare clinical enterprise. 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. The areas of focus for our program include:

1. Clinical Ethics Issues: 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; and end-of-life decision making. These issues can be complicated by a variety of socio-economic, cultural or language barriers.

2. Bioethics Education: We provide bioethics education to the UK clinical enterprise in the form of grand rounds, graduate medical education (GME) or other 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.

To make an appointment or find a physician, please call UK HealthCare at 859-257-1000 or toll free 1-800-333-8874.
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