GRADUATE COURSE
International Healthcare Ethics
ACC – IHE 707
Graduate-level study of ethical decision-making, cross-cultural healthcare, and professional responsibility in diverse healthcare settings.
Is this Course Right For You?
International Healthcare Ethics is designed for healthcare professionals, healthcare students, educators, administrators, and humanitarian workers seeking to navigate complex ethical challenges in clinical, public health, and global health environments. Learners explore ethical principles and practical frameworks that support thoughtful, culturally respectful, and patient-centered decision-making.
What You'll Gain
Why International Healthcare Ethics Matter
Healthcare professionals regularly face difficult decisions involving patients, families, communities, and healthcare systems. These challenges become even more complex when working across cultures, resource limitations, and differing perspectives. This course equips learners with practical ethical frameworks that support responsible decision-making and culturally respectful healthcare practice.
Meet Your Faculty
Scott Armistead, MD, DIMPH
Dean of Faculty & Professor
Drawing on decades of experience in global health, cross-cultural medical practice, and healthcare education in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe, and the United States, Dr. Armistead helps learners apply ethical principles to complex healthcare challenges in diverse cultural settings.
Cost & Affordability
INMED is committed to providing affordable, graduate-level education for healthcare professionals and students worldwide.
Tuition for the Epidemiology $2,150.
Ready to Begin?
Join healthcare professionals and students developing the knowledge and skills needed to serve effectively across cultures and communities.
Course Details
About this Course
Healthcare as a profession has inherent underlying and often inadequately examined ethical assumptions and principles from which ethical decisions are made. In the US, nearly all health-care professionals are taught at least the four basic principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. In the diverse international context and among some populations within the US, these principles are sometimes not assumed. In this course learners will first focus on Western ethical principles and then broaden the perspective by critiquing these Euro-American ethical perspectives by looking at bioethics from the perspective of other cultural approaches – voices from within the US and internationally. An anthropological approach will be introduced. The questions surrounding a universal morality, moral status and obligation, individualism and communalism, public good and individual freedom, globalism vs “statism”, etc. will be explored. Course graduates will gain an understanding of the breadth of cultural complexity from which ethical decision-making occurs in an international context. In the final essay, there will be the opportunity to take a particular case from an international context and apply the principles learned. This is a comprehensive course is built around the required textbook, Principles of Biomedical Ethics – Beauchamp and Childress, 7th edition, available on amazon.com. (There is no ebook version available. Please make sure to allow enough time for shipping.)
This course may be taken individually or applied toward select INMED graduate credentials.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the International Healthcare Ethics Course, learners will be able to demonstrate using case-studies, reflective writing, and simulation:
- Western principles of ethics related to healthcare
- Complexities of healthcare ethics in the non-Western international cultural context
- Analytical skills to understand and speak into ethical issues across cultures
Schedule & Format
Download the Syllabus for the INMED International Healthcare Ethics Course
INMED Graduate Courses follow a structured eight-week learning format designed to promote meaningful engagement, collaboration, and application.
Course Format
- Eight-week online learning experience
- Weekly faculty-guided virtual classroom sessions
- Assigned readings and learning activities
- Interaction with faculty and fellow learners
- Applied assignments and assessments
Time Commitment
Learners should anticipate dedicating approximately 4-6 hours per week to readings, coursework, discussions, assignments, and virtual classroom participation.
Education & Evaluation
Education Methods
Learners will achieve the course competency objectives through the following educational methods:
- Assigned book and article readings
- Critical analysis
- Group discussions
- Essay Composition
- Simulation exercises
Evaluation Methods & Requirements For Successful Completion
Assessment of the learner’s performance will be based upon:
- Demonstration of the competency objectives using case-studies and simulation
- Completion of all Chapter Discussion Board assignments
- Completion of all Article Discussion Board assignments
- Achievement of 80% or greater score on the International Healthcare Ethics Essay
- Achievement of 80% or greater score on the International Healthcare Ethics Final Exam
- Complete evaluation and credit claims forms at the course conclusion.
Continuing Education
Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit for the INMED International Healthcare Ethics Course is attained through satisfactory completion of the course requirements. Note: CME is not applicable to students or resident physicians.
Cost
There is no additional charge for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit.
Accreditation Statement
Physicians
Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Institute for International Medicine designates this other activity (live course and enduring material) for a maximum of 32 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Launch Date: February 1, 2024
Accreditation Termination Date: February 1, 2027
Other Healthcare Professionals
A certificate of completion indicating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ will be issued for completing this course. Certificates may be submitted to applicable state boards for recognition.
Disclosures
No persons in control of the content of this course have relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
| Nicholas Comninellis MD MPH DIMPH | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose |
| Scott Armistead MD DIMPH | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose |
| Fred Loper MD | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose |
| Timothy Myrick MD DTMH | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose |
| Leda Rivera | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose |
Policies
Enrollment in INMED courses constitutes agreement with all applicable academic and administrative policies.
Refund Policy
Refund requests are subject to INMED’s published refund schedule and policies.
Attendance
Learners are expected to actively participate in all required learning activities and virtual classroom sessions.
Punctuality
Assignments and assessments should be completed by established deadlines. Late submissions may affect successful course completion.
Academic Standing
INMED reserves the right to dismiss learners who fail to meet academic, professional, or behavioral expectations.
Technology Requirements
Learners are responsible for maintaining reliable internet access and the technology necessary to participate fully in online learning activities.
Additional policies are available through the Student Policies section.
