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Internships
Two internship
options are available for students interested in the field of Bioethics:
Summer
Internships sponsored by the Institute for Practical
Ethics and the Bioethics Internship Seminar, detailed
below.
With the help of generous start-up grants
from the Dean
of Arts & Sciences and the Donchian
Foundation, the Bioethics Program currently offers approximately
ten undergraduate Bioethics Internships each semester. This
program typically places students in such clinical services as:
Neonatal ICU, AIDS Clinic, Cancer Genetics, Adolescent Medicine,
Rural Primary Care, Chaplains' Office, Geriatrics, Emergency Medicine,
Hospice, and the Charlottesville Free Clinic. Each student
is attached to a clinical mentor who is responsible for exposing
the student to the practices and ethical problems of his/her field.
In addition to spending at least 4 hours per
week in her or his clinical setting, each student concurrently
enrolls in a Bioethics Internship Seminar (RELG 423). The
seminar is by Margaret
Mohrmann, a distinguished professor of pediatrics in
the medical school and holder of a Ph.D. in Religious Studies
from UVa. It focuses on topics that tend to cut across the
borders of the different internship placements, such as:
Doing ethics in a clinical setting; the experience of patienthood;
the sociology of the modern hospital and medical training; and
the pragmatics of case consultation. Each student is required
to do a certain amount of reading and do a research project focusing
on a problem or issue presented during their internship.
Students then present the results of their work, usually focused
on a case, to the full seminar. Mentors usually attend these
sessions.
This course is designed to provide students
with experience in discerning and analyzing ethical issues
as they arise in particular clinical settings. Each student
will spend one half-day each week in a clinic or other health-care-related
setting (the same setting throughout the semester) under the
mentorship of a health care professional engaged in that setting.
Seminar time will focus both on the role of the ethicist/observer
and on the particular issues that commonly arise in clinical
medicine; during the second half of the semester, students
will give presentations related to their specific areas of
observation. Students are expected to have some background
knowledge of bioethics methods and common questions.
Application for Bioethics Internships
Entrance to this internship program is by application only . If
you are interested in applying, please fill out the following
form, or send an email with the following information to Prof.
Arras <jda3a@virginia.edu>
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