This course has been designed to study the ethical underpinnings for the proper conduct of research involving human participants including a brief historical review of ethics in science, laws, and regulations that address human subjects’ research.

Ethical Issues in Health Sciences is designed to guide students in the development of a wide-ranging overview and advanced understanding of research ethics with human subjects. Throughout the course, students will seek to understand the ethical dimensions in scientific inquiry. Students will discuss the application and integration of ethical principles in human subjects’ research ranging from ethics in experimental design, participant recruitment to authorship/publication to conflicts of interest, and emerging societal issues with new technology and scientific advances.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Video Discussion: Mission, Vision, and Values

The student will complete 1 Video Discussion in this course. The student will post one 3-5 minute video. The student must then post 2 written replies of at least 75 words. For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least 2 scholarly citations in APA format. Each reply must incorporate at least 2 scholarly citation(s) in APA format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years. Acceptable sources include the textbook, the Bible, and peer reviewed research.

Ethical Reflections Assignments (3)

The purpose of these ethical reflection assignments is to equip you to apply course reading and
theological ethics into the types of situations that health care leaders and administrators face over
the course of their career. Case studies such as these are not catechistic, but they can provide a
basis for grounding one’s ethical reflections in context-rich situations.

For the annotated bibliography include a clear summary of each research source in which you summarize the source. Include why this source was selected and commentary or evidence it provides to support your Philosophy of Ethics in Research Assignment. At least 10 sources are needed and must be from textbooks or peer reviewed research.

All students will complete one 12-15 page (typed, double-spaced APA format with at least 5 biblical verses and 10 sources [peer reviewed research and textbooks]) “Personal Philosophy of Ethics in Research” paper. The student will express with confidence their own sense of identity and values related to their views on ethics in research which are thoughtfully expressed and defended, and establishment of a foundation of belief that will allow for future actions “that are honest, courageous, and consistent with their beliefs. Students will cite specific ethical dilemmas that have been discussed in the course readings and discussion board activities and how their mission statement will guide them through the scenarios.

You will outline and expand on the sources of pressure that an academic research can experience that could place them in ethical dilemmas and how this can be combatted (5-7 pages double spaced in APA format with at least 3 biblical verses and 5 sources [peer reviewed research and textbooks]). These sources of pressure will include at least: institutional, personal [family, faith, peers], and private industry. Additional sources of pressure may be added to this list.

Quiz

This quiz is different from the other, shorter quizzes in the course and will cover the Reading & Study material from the assigned modules/weeks in the semester. It will be open-book/open-notes, contain 5 essay questions, and has a 3-hour time limit.

Quizzes (9)

The quizzes will cover the Reading & Study material from the assigned modules/weeks in the semester. It will be open-book/open-notes and will be 30 minutes.