Education: The center provides opportunities to acquire or further develop abilities in medico-ethical decision making through studies in college and university settings, seminary and Bible school settings, workshops, electronic self-help resources, information services, conferences, in-service training, public forums, and ethics committee training programs.
Consultation: The center functions as a resource for biomedical ethics and public policy through its advisory services. Services offered include participation in patient consultation, independent hospital ethics committee consultation, legislative consults, and judicial consults.
Research: An inter-disciplinary group of health care professionals, legal professionals, allied health care professionals, clergy, theologians, philosophers, and informed public representatives constitute the center's ethics consortium. This consortium serves as the research and development arm of the center through its vigorous inter-disciplinary discussion of ethical issues. Analysis of literature, empirical studies, and theoretical formulation provide foundations for guidelines in medico-ethical decision making. The consortium focuses on current medico-ethical issues raised in individual health care contexts, physician practice, institutional practice, and/or public policy contexts. Research projects are used to clarify, evaluate, and propose courses of action based upon the Judeo-Christian tradition in the rapidly changing medical industrial complex.
