The Dossetor Centre reaches out to scholars, students, health-care practitioners, clinical ethics committee members, health-care administrators, patients and their families, media and the general public through:
- Health Ethics Seminar Series
- Health Ethics Symposium
- Health Ethics Workshops
- Grand Rounds
- Health Ethics Today, a newsletter published two to three times per year with a local, provincial, national, and international distribution list, including all medical doctors across Alberta
- Media contacts to discuss health ethics topics in the news
Conducting research on a broad spectrum of ethical, moral and human-rights issues, including:
- clinical practice
- compassion
- disability ethics
- human rights
- mental health
- moral distress
- health policy
- gender issues
- public health
- relational ethics
- neonatology-perinatology
- professionalism
- phenomenology
Teaching health ethics to students of all levels across many faculties at the University of Alberta. Education opportunities include:
- INT D 570: Healthcare Ethics
- INT D 670: Research Ethics
- Medical Sub-Specialty Ethics Teaching
- Undergraduate Medical Student Elective, An Experience in Bioethics
