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UCLA HEALTH ETHICS CENTER: Post-Doctoral Clinical Ethics Fellowship
The Opportunity
***This is a 2-year contract effective August 18, 2025 – August 17, 2027***
The University of California, Los Angeles Health Ethics Center is seeking applicants for our two-year, full-time, Post-Doctoral Clinical Ethics Fellowship Program. The successful applicant will commit to a demanding clinical schedule, providing supervised clinical ethics consultation, on-call coverage, education throughout the UCLA Health system, assistance in developing institutional policies, service as a member of three ethics committees, and participate in the Center's scholarly and research activities.
The goal of our Fellowship Program is to provide individuals who have already demonstrated a high degree of academic achievement in the discipline of ethics with the necessary intensive clinical education, training and experience to function upon completion of the program as Professional Clinical Ethicists possessing advanced knowledge and skills competencies in clinical ethics consultation, education, policy development, and scholarship. In and through our Fellowship Program, the UCLA Health Ethics Center seeks to contribute in a meaningful way to the robust professionalization of our field.
Ultimately, the UCLA Health Ethics Center's overarching commitment is to excellence in patient care. Given the value-laden nature of healthcare, this excellence can only be achieved in care environments where moral insight, sensitivity, and commitment flourish. Our Fellowship Program exists to educate and train gifted individuals who share this vision.
About the Ethics Center
The Ethics Center was founded in 2002 with the goal of strengthening our ethical commitments and improving the humanistic aspects of the health care we provide for our patients and their families. Serving the needs of UCLA Health’s four hospitals (which rank among the best in the nation), the Center enjoys robust institutional support and is a leader in developing innovative clinical ethics programs.
The UCLA Health Ethics Center’s primary commitment is to the promotion of excellence in patient care. Given the value-laden nature of health care, this excellence can only be achieved
in care environments where moral insight, sensitivity and commitment flourish. Our Fellowship program exists to educate and train gifted individuals who share this vision.
Qualifications
To be admitted to our Fellowship Program, an applicant must possess a terminal degree in bioethics. Specifically, the candidate must possess either: (1) a Ph.D. in bioethics/healthcare ethics; or (2) a Ph.D. in philosophical ethics with a bioethics/healthcare ethics related dissertation. Preference will be given to candidates with teaching experience in (bio)ethics at the university-level and a demonstrated record of ethics publication in peer-reviewed journals.
HOW TO APPLY
Apply online at: https://www.uclahealthcareers.org/job/21258124/post-doctoral-clinical-ethics-fellowship-los-angeles-ca/
*Please read application instructions below prior to clicking on APPLY NOW*
As you complete the online application you will need to submit/upload the following documents when applying to this position (all items must be combined into one Word document or PDF file and submitted into the "Upload Resume" feature):
- CV
- Letter of Interest
- Three references (including name, email address and phone number)
Tips for merging documents into one PDF file:
- Ensure all documents are in PDF format; convert if necessary
- Utilize combinepdf.com or smallpdf.com for merging files into a single PDF
- Follow the website's instructions for the merging process
- Download and save the resulting PDF
- Now you can upload the merged document to your application in the "Upload Resume" section
***Review of applications will begin on December 10, 2024 and continue until the position is filled***