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No matter what your role in healthcare, you will come across ethical issues.  These online healthcare degrees provide the tools needed to develop strategies to manage ethical challenges that arise regularly in the current health care system.

Courses ensure graduates are able to:

• Analyze clinical ethics issues and cases
• Participate in ethics committee activities
• Participate in clinical ethics consultation services
• Develop institutional policies related to ethics

While this degree is 100% online, one course is a synchronized virtual class that provides practical training in clinical ethics skills in an intensive eight-day seminar.  Other courses are completed asynchronously, allowing you to study when and where it is convenient with no scheduled class meetings or discussions.

No matter what role you play in the healthcare field, you will probably deal with ethical issues.  These accredited online healthcare degrees supplement the training and education mid-career professionals and highly motivated post-baccalaureate students have received with cutting-edge, innovative coursework in bioethics.  Learn to analyze ethical situations in:

• Public health
• Pastoral care
• Patient advocacy
• Medical research  
• Medical social work

There is a lot of flexibility in this degree, including studying where and when it is convenient and choosing your master’s project format.  It can be a traditional thesis, publishable journal articles, or a practical project.  Choose electives that match your career, and if you want a clinical focus, there is an on-site course offered with clinicians about real cases.