Education
Master of Arts in Urban Bioethics
Our hallmark educational program, the Master of Arts in Urban Bioethics, is the nation’s only bioethics degree explicitly focused on health equity. The program provides a solid foundation in traditional bioethics along with practical training and resources for understanding and analyzing the ethics, values, and value conflicts that exist in dense, disparate, and diverse urban settings.
Students who pursue the MA in Urban Bioethics learn how to address inequities of health and access to medical, legal, and other resources in disparate, diverse, and dense urban areas. Due to the far-reaching impact of bioethics, we welcome students from a wide variety of educational and professional backgrounds including medicine, policy, philosophy, research, industry, administration, and law.
The MA in Urban Bioethics can be completed as a stand-alone degree or as a dual degree. We offer dual degree programs with medicine (MD), sociology (MA, PhD), and philosophy (MA, PhD). We also offer specialized tracks for Temple University Health System residents in internal medicine, psychiatry, and obstetrics/gynecology.
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Pincus Family Foundation Urban Health Fellowship
Generously funded by the Pincus Family Foundation, the Pincus Urban Health Fellowship is a two-year program that provides a targeted cohort of healthcare professionals with a well-rounded education about the state of pediatric health in urban communities – equipping them with the skills to develop and implement innovative approaches to address health equity in this population. A goal of the Pincus Urban Health Fellowship is to build a team knowledgeable about, committed to, and embedded in urban communities like North Philadelphia.
Fellows complete the Master of Arts in Urban Bioethics program in year one, which includes the core curriculum and specialized pediatric bioethics and public health electives uniquely crafted to enhance Fellows’ educational experience. This theoretical and methodological groundwork becomes the basis for a year-long project in year two. Fellows identify a specific pediatric problem in North Philadelphia and work with academic, medical, and community mentors to develop, implement, and produce a thesis that evaluates an innovative intervention with the goal of improv pediatric health in a fiscally sustainable way. The project becomes the topic of the thesis degree candidates submit.
Please see sites.temple.edu/pincusfellowship for more information about our fellowship and the next cycle of applications.
Urban Bioethics throughout Temple
In addition to teaching our in-house Urban Bioethics courses, our faculty lend their expertise and instruction to a variety of other programs throughout Temple University and the Temple University Health System, including many critical teaching roles in the MD program in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.
Center faculty also teach bioethics courses and contribute guest lectures in the Kornberg School of Dentistry undergraduate dental and dental residency programs, the Katz School of Medicine Physician Assistant and post-baccalaureate programs, and the Beasley School of Law.
Finally, within Temple University Health System, Center faculty are invited to give grand rounds and lead educational conferences throughout the clinical departments of Temple’s health system. Center faculty also sit on the Health System’s Ethics Committee and the Medical School’s Institutional Review Board (IRB).