MS Degree in Bioethics | Icahn School of Medicine

Twenty-first century medicine involves hard science, the medical arts, and advanced technology. Embracing all three, while simultaneously maintaining medicine’s core ethical commitments is complicated. The Master of Science (MS) in Bioethics program at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai prepares students to rise to this challenge while navigating today’s complex laws, social conditions, and political currents. In partnership with Clarkson University and The City University of New York (CUNY), the MS in Bioethics program provides ethics education for graduate students, residents and fellows, nurses, and MD and PhD students throughout the Icahn Mount Sinai community and Mount Sinai Health System.

Our collaboration with other institutions both regionally and globally allows us to draw on faculty experts that each bring a unique set of experiences to inform students’ education. Students learn competency-based and skills-based education in clinical ethics, research ethics, and bioethics policy. We vigorously discuss a spectrum of ethics topics, including refusal of treatment, transplant organ allocation, end-of-life care, physician aid-in-dying, the use of animals in research, and health policy issues related to justice. Our program is suitable for students pursuing a variety of careers including medicine, law, academia, research, and policy.

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Meet the Director

Rosamond Rhodes, PhD

PROFESSOR | Medical Education

PROFESSOR | Artificial Intelligence and Human Health

Dr. Rhodes is an accomplished professor and expert in bioethics, publishing more than 200 articles on genetics, transplantation, death and dying, and other pertinent ethical issues in medicine.

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