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The online graduate certificate in health ethics from Mizzou is ideal for health care providers, administrators, ethics committee members and other health care professionals seeking advanced education opportunities. If you want to develop practical and clinical competencies in health care ethics, this may be the certificate for you.
For questions, contact admissions at bbmeadmissions@missouri.edu. This program is administered by the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology in partnership with the MU Center for Health Ethics.
Quick facts
Official name
Graduate Certificate in Health EthicsCampus
Program type
Graduate certificateAcademic home
School of Medicine | Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical EpidemiologyDelivery mode
100% onlineAccreditation
Higher Learning CommissionCredit hours
12Estimated cost
$6,741.60*This cost is for illustrative purposes only. Your hours and costs will differ, depending on your transfer hours, your course choices and your academic progress. See more about tuition and financial aid.
Career prospects
This graduate certificate has potential benefits for
- Anesthetists
- Biomedical engineers
- Chiropractors, dentists or optometrists
- Medical or health services managers
- Medical scientists
- Registered nurse or nurse practitioners
Program structure
Delivery of this program is 100 percent online: no campus visits are required.
Courses are semester-based. Students typically take two classes each semester and finish in one year.
Course work includes
- Ethical issues in clinical practice
- How metaethics and normative ethics relate to situations and controversies in health care
- Use and management of health information, including privacy and confidentiality
- Codes of ethics, conflicts of interest and other management issues
Delivery
100% onlineCalendar system
Semester-basedTypical program length
1 yearTypical course load
2 classes per semesterAccreditation
The University of Missouri is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.
Faculty spotlight
Lea Cheyney Brandt serves as director of the University of Missouri’s (Mizzou) Center for Health Ethics and medical director of clinical ethics and consultation services for the health system. In her role with the Center, Dr. Brandt sits on several ethics-related committees, serves as the ethics policy content expert, works as a clinical ethics consultant, chairs the clinical ethics committee, and serves as an investigator on multiple grants. She teaches clinical ethics throughout Mizzou’s health system.
Dr. Brandt earned a doctorate from Mizzou’s Sinclair School of Nursing, where her dissertation explored the ethical behavior of clinicians through pedagogical innovation. She has also earned a post-professional doctorate in occupational therapy.
She has authored and co-authored publications and continuing education materials on ethics in practice. She also lectures nationally and internationally on clinical ethics, education and professionalism in practice topics.
Clayton Clark has experience in medical-surgical, mental health and nursing ethics specialties. Dr. Clark serves as associate director for the University of Missouri (Mizzou) Center for Health Ethics and practices as a clinical ethics consultant. He also works as part of Mizzou’s Continuing Education for Health Professions team. His research interests focus on spiritual coping for both patients and caregivers during chronic, life-threatening and terminal cardiac illnesses.
He earned a graduate certificate in health ethics from Mizzou and a doctorate in nursing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.