Training Program

Bioethics Training at Bioethics Center, University of Louvain (UCL)

Fogarty scholars follow a customized bioethics training program at the UCL Bioethics Center. The strengths of the program lie in its critical, interdisciplinary, and pragmatic approach. The varied program provides Fogarty bioethics scholars with a solid theoretical and practical training in bioethics and research ethics by means of lectures, seminars, practical exercises and mentored research. More information about the Bioethics Center is available from our Partners webpage.

In view of obtaining a Master's level degree in Bioethics, Fogarty bioethics scholars choose from the following set of required and optional courses:

Required courses

• PHI 1351 Philosophical Anthropology
• PHI 1220 Introduction to Philosophy of Science
• PHI 2200 Foundations of Ethics and Bioethics

Optional courses

• HOPS 2240 Introduction to ethics and bioethics
• EBIM 1100 Principles and methods in bioethics
• EBIM 1110 Applied cases in bioethics
• EBIM 1120 Clinical cases seminar
• MED   2104 Social and ethical issues in health and medicine
• MED   2300 Seminar on medical deontology
• DROI  2395 Medical law
• ECON 2254 Social and economic ethics
• REL   2831 Bioethical questions
• ESP   3580 Introduction to health economics
• MED  2260 Health and development
• EDU   2281 Patient education: a qualitative approach
• ESP   3661  Seminar on ethics of health and development
• DVLP 3122  Socio-political analysis of development
• HUMA 3835 Epidemiology, public health and medicine in humanitarian crises

Scholars are also required to write a publication-quality paper on a bioethics or research ethics theme, containing a comprehensive scientific bibliography.

During their training period, Fogarty scholars also participate in activities held within the Bioethics Center and other bioethics meetings and events in Western Europe. In the academic year 2004-2005, these activities included:

• North-South Reproductive Health: from Awareness to Action (Louvain-la-Neuve,17-20 Nov 2004)
• The Medical Creation of the Family (workshop on ethics and neonatology, UCL,18 Feb 2005)
• Decentralization: A Strategy of Political, Economic and Social Change in Africa (UCL, 1 March 2005)
• Sex and AIDS 20 Years after Michel Foucault (UCL, 11 March 2005)
• 3rd Francophone HIV/AIDS Congress (Brussels,12-14 March 2005)
• Joint Session of the International Bioethics Committee and Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (Paris, 26-27 January, 2005).