Each year The National Catholic Bioethics Center presents a series of two-day seminars in various cities across the United States to address current topics in bioethics. Required for those participating in the Center’s National Catholic Certification Program in Health Care Ethics, these seminars are open to all engaged in, or preparing to engage in, health care ministries consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church. The seminars benefit health care professionals and administrators, clergy members, researchers in the biomedical and life sciences, and those who provide support and counsel to patients and their families. Others interested in understanding and advancing the Church’s moral tradition in health care will also find the seminars accessible and informative. Medical professionals can earn up to nine (9) clinical medical education units (see below).

The seminar presentations apply the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services to critical issues in medicine and the life sciences. They also equip participants to recognize, analyze, and resolve complex bioethical dilemmas encountered in clinical education, medical practice, and research from an interdisciplinary perspective. Seminar faculty include NCBC ethicists and other distinguished experts.

Objectives

The seminars train those engaged in health care ministry and other related professions to effectively convey and apply the Church’s moral teaching as summarized in the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. Upon completion of the program, students will be equipped to:

• Articulate the Catholic Church’s understanding of the inherent dignity of the human person as the objective basis for its moral tradition in health care.

• Recognize the theological, moral, and medical dimensions of modern day challenges in health care and bioethics.

• Apply Catholic moral teaching and the Church’s authoritative guidance to resolve complex ethical dilemmas encountered in clinical education, medical practice, and research.

Seminar Topics

• Sources of Catholic Moral Decision Making

• The Gift of Children and Assisted ‘Reproductive’ Technologies

• Pregnancy-Related Challenges and Complications

• Contraception, Sterilization, and NFP/FABM

• Gender Ideology and Medical Interventions for “Transitioning”

• Complex Moral Principles: Double Effect & Cooperation

• Moral Decision Making at End of Life

• Responding to Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide - Palliative Care & Hospice

• Determination of Death and Organ Transplantation

Continuing Education Credit Opportunities - UP to 9 Credit hours

Click HERE for information: Credit Hours from the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA)

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Past Program Reviews

Attendees have shared high praise for NCBC offerings: “exceptional program helping each participant understand how to apply Catholic teaching to challenging ethical issue”; and  “extremely important for physicians as the bioethical principles with which you become familiar in real-life patient situations make decisions much easier to make.” For detailed evaluation responses, please email or phone Julie Kelley at 215-871-2013. The National Catholic Bioethics Center also offers a one-year online certification program for those interested in a more in-depth study.

Seminar Enrollment Benefits

Those who enroll receive the following:

• Full participation in the two-day seminar

• One electronic copy of the seminar program book

• By request - One copy of Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Practitioners

Conflict of Interest Statement

The content of the information which will be presented will promote quality or improvements in health care and will not promote a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.