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PhD opportunity in Clinical Ethics in Oncology
A PhD opportunity in Clinical Ethics in Oncology, will soon be announced by the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), in agreement with the University of Milan, is about to announce a 4-year international PhD position in the Medical Humanities, with a specific focus on Clinical Ethics in Oncology.
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IME to Sponsor PET Annual Conference
This full-day event on the 10th December 2025 will be of great interest to IME members as it explores the impact of genomics on assisted conception and IVF – this will include grappling with the ethical implications of the newest challenges and longstanding controversies.
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Conference Report: Conversations on the Future of Assisted Dying in the UK – Bristol (March 2025)
On behalf of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, Daniel Kim an undergraduate Healthcare Ethics and Law (HEAL) Student, received an IME institutional grant towards travel expenses for presenters at the 'Conversations on the Future of Assisted Dying in the UK' conference held in Bristol in March 2025. Daniel's summary of the event is below.
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ONLINE SEMINAR – An ‘assisted death’ by any other name would smell as sweet? – RECORDING
This is a recording of the online seminar that took place on 30th April 2025 featuring Prof David A Jones
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PGBC 2025 – Disruption in Bioethics – Call for abstracts
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Core Ethics Guidance
British Medical Association
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Postgraduate courses
Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester
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ONLINE SEMINAR – A global profession needs a global ethos – The World Medical Association’s Revised International Code of Medical Ethics provides one – RECORDING
This is a recording of the online seminar that took place on 21st March 2024 featuring Raanan Gillon, Urban Wiesing and Ramin W Parsa-Parsi.
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Conference Report: IME National Student Conference 2024 ‘Ethics of the Mind’
Roosa Harmo, a 2nd year Universities of St Andrews/Dundee ScotGEM student, received an IME grant to attend this conference on 10th February 2024, London. Read her summary below:
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Report: IME National Student Conference 2024
'Ethics of the Mind'
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BMA core ethics guidance on-line resource launched
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‘Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law’
New book by Jan Deckers, Bioethicist at Newcastle University
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