BRIDGING THE PROFESSIONS AN INTEGRATED AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHTO TEACHING HEALTH-CARE ETHICS

In 1993, the authors introduced an interdisciplinary course in health care ethics at the University of British Columbia. They were motivated by two convictions: (1) an interdisciplinary approach to health care decision making is best; and (2) every significant health care decisio n has an ethical component. They wanted to encourage students from the various health care disciplines to participate in interdisciplinary d ecision making in their future practices by giving them an opportunity to study health cue ethics together juring their training. The author s give detailed descriptions of the objectives, format, curriculum, an d evaluation of this innovative course in the hope that other educator s who may want to develop similar courses can learn from their experie nce.