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Our Mission

This site seeks to link the teaching of ethics across the curriculum with the Institute for Ethics in Healthcare housed at the Medical Campus. This site emphasizes ethics in health care. This project will benefit anyone involved in ethics education. Ethical decision-making applies in all aspects of society.  We seek to bring together parties with a shared interest in teaching ethics and ethical decision-making.

The mission of the Institute for Ethics in Health Care is to:  
1. Create awareness in the community of ethical issues in health care.
2. Impart to faculty and students the skills and background needed to apply critical   thinking and ethics in their disciplines.      
3. Promote a forum through which skills and decision-making related to ethical issues in health care can be addressed.
4. To promote collaboration among disciplines

 

Our Profile

The Medical Campus is one of six campuses of Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC), the largest multi-campus community college in the United States. M-DCC is recognized as one of the best community colleges in the nation. The Medical Campus offers 13 Associate in Science degree programs  and 10 short-term certificate programs in Nursing and the Allied Health professions. Approximately 2500 students of Miami-Dade Community College are enrolled in a healthcare program at the Medical Campus, accounting for approximately 5% of MDCC's enrollment.


Advisory Committee

Project Director 
            Carol Petrozella , RN, EdD 
            School of Nursing
            Miami-Dade Community College 
            Medical Campus

Web Master
            Ellyn Biggs, MS   
            Miami-Dade Community College

Advisory Committee
           Kate Callahan, RN, PhD
           The Huntington Consultant Group
           
            Jean  W. Davis, RN, CS, EdD
            Family Practitioner
            Bennett Family Practice

            Charles Fink, PhD
            Department of Arts and Philosophy
            Miami-Dade Community College 
            Kendall Campus

            Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD
           
Director, University of Miami Bioethics Program
            Co-Executive Director Florida Bioethics Network

            Pedro J. Greer, Jr. MD, F.A.C.P., F.A.C.G.
            Assistant Dean, University of Miami,
            School of Medicine

            Jane E. Hendricks, BA, MA, JD
            A member of several South Florida Health
            Ethics related Committees.
            
            Susan H. Kass, EdD
            School of Allied Health - Dental Hygiene
            Miami-Dade Community College 
            Medical  Center Campus

            Georgie C. Labadie, RN, EdD
            School of Nursing    
            University of Miami

           Allen L. McPhee, MA
           Department of Arts and Philosophy Communication
           Miami-Dade Community College
           North Campus

            Mark Neunder, PhD
            Department of Arts and Philosophy Communication
            Miami-Dade Community College
            InterAmerican  Campus

            Robert C. Taukus, RN, BSN, CPTC
           Organ Procurement Coordinator
           University of Miami School of Surgery
           Daughtry Family Department of Surgery
           Division of Transportation


Sponsors

This project, Institute for Ethics in Healthcare, is sponsored in part by the   Fund for the Improvement of Post  Secondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. The Institute for Ethics in Healthcare is also partially supported through a grant from the Hugoton Foundation


Contact Information

  

305-237-1698      305-237-1886  

                  Ethics@mdcc.edu