Institute News

IBC38 Approved to Offer 27 CME Credits

January 12, 2012

This June's Intensive Bioethics Course has been designated an educational activity approved to offer a maximum of 27 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits by Georgetown University Hospital's Office of Continuing Medical Education. Starting on Monday afternoon June 4, we will feature 8 plenary lectures, 5 special topic sessions, and an optional Library Proseminar on Monday morning.

Featured speakers this year will include Henk ten Have, former director of UNESCO's Division of Science, Ethics and Technology and Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University, and Christine Grady, current member of the President's Commission on Bioethics and Acting Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the NIH. Other plenary lectures will be given by founders of the field, Tom Beauchamp, Edmund Pellegrino, and Robert Veatch, from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics—to name a few of the luminaries lined up for this year's Course.

For additional details, including the full schedule, registration forms, and updated information as available, please visit our website, http://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu.