Objectives

Objectives for Wellness and Bioethics Program

Main Objective:

Provide a space where the Humanities can provide employees, students, residents, fellows and faculty a space for reflection, a place to share with fellow students and practice wellness through the Humanities.

Provide a place where, through narrative discourse employees, students, residents, fellows and faculty may examine and illuminate four of medicine’s central narratives: Physician and Self; Physician and Patient, Physician and Colleagues and Physician and Society.

Secondary objectives:

  1. Provide a space for employees, students, residents, fellows and faculty can recognize own personal journeys through medicine.
  2. Provide a space to acknowledge kingship with, and duties toward other healthcare professionals.
  3. Inaugurate discourse with the public about healthcare
  4. Provide a space for artistic expression as a means toward wellness: graphic art, music, narrative.
Home

Welcome

Hello to everyone!

These have been trying times and we at the Bioethics and Biomedical Humanities Center, the Wellness Center, and the Graduate Medical Education Department have come together to create UCC Wellness, where we can all contribute. Do you write poems? Draw and paint? Write essays?  Would like to publish reflections on themes we will be setting forth? Join a Socratic Seminar or a discussion board to discuss an emerging situation in Medicine? Share recipes that are typical of your country, county or town? Saw a movie that really moved you? Tell others about your country of origin?

Comment, publish and upload on UCC Wellness!

We are open to all kinds of art, opinions, poems or comments as long as we are civil and respectful with each other.

Created by: Nilaysa M. Figueroa González  

Vision, Mission, Values
Vision

To make ethics an integrated part of everyday, envisions health care that is compassionate, just and respectful.

Mission

To improve the health care of our community by serving as a resource for ethics education, professionalism and compassionate communication in health care.

Values
  • Integrity
  • Dignity and respect for people
  • Justice
  • Moral Courage
  • Strategies
  • Collaboration among health care.
  • Empowerment of the patient.
  • Inclusivity and diversity across campus.
  • Compassionate communication.
  • Goals
  • Integrate principles of bioethics into daily clinical practice.
  • Increase the visibility of teaching bioethics in the clinical setting.