Potter Jordan, Hurst Daniel, Trani Christine, Clatty Ariel, Stockey Sarah
Wellstar Health System, Atlanta, GA, USA.
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
J Med Humanit. 2019 Dec;40(4):473-487. doi: 10.1007/s10912-019-09560-2.
Each year, many young professionals forego advanced education in the traditional doctoral programs of medicine, law, and philosophy in favor of pursuing a PhD or professional doctorate in bioethics or healthcare ethics that is offered by several major institutes of higher education across the United States. These graduates often leverage their degrees into careers within the broader field of bioethics. As such, they represent a growing percentage of professional bioethicists in both academia and healthcare nationwide. Given the significant role that doctoral bioethics programs play in the training of future professional bioethicists, it is imperative that programs conferring bioethics degrees are attuned to the knowledge and skills students will need as they transition to professional positions, especially where this training substantially differs from more traditional doctoral degree tracks. Yet, even given this need, there is nothing in the professional literature regarding doctoral bioethics graduates' perspectives or the overall efficacy of a bioethics doctorate as compared to more traditional doctoral degree tracks for future professional bioethicists. This paper then gives the perspective of five recent doctoral bioethics graduates on the utility of a bioethics doctorate and areas where the doctorate prepared or underprepared them in their roles as early-career professional bioethicists.
每年，许多年轻专业人士放弃医学、法律和哲学等传统博士项目的高等教育，转而攻读美国几所主要高等教育机构提供的生物伦理学或医疗保健伦理学博士学位或专业博士学位。这些毕业生常常凭借他们的学位在更广泛的生物伦理学领域开启职业生涯。因此，在全国范围内的学术界和医疗保健领域，他们在专业生物伦理学家中所占的比例越来越大。鉴于博士生物伦理学项目在培养未来专业生物伦理学家方面发挥着重要作用，授予生物伦理学学位的项目必须与学生在过渡到专业岗位时所需的知识和技能相契合，尤其是在这种培训与更传统的博士学位课程有很大不同的情况下。然而，即便有这种需求，专业文献中却没有关于博士生物伦理学毕业生的观点，也没有将生物伦理学博士学位与更传统的博士学位课程相比，对未来专业生物伦理学家的整体效能的相关内容。本文给出了五位近期获得博士学位的生物伦理学毕业生对于生物伦理学博士学位的效用以及该博士学位在他们作为早期职业专业生物伦理学家的角色中使他们有所准备或准备不足的领域的看法。
