HT 275 Medical Ethics

5 CR

Medical Ethics is a student centered course that is designed to help students understand the relevance of current ethical trends in health care. This course prepares students not only for healthcare ethics on a national level, but also an international level that relates to working with today’s diverse population. Through this students will gain an understanding of the challenges providers and healthcare workers face when treating patients who may be culturally diverse, have varying religious beliefs, or different in lifestyle choices, and the various psycho-social aspects of each as it relates to healthcare. Students will also attain an understanding of the complex business side of health care and how ethics plays a role in these daily transactions. Note: this course meets the human relations general education requirements for the medical coding and billing program generalist only.