Overview of volume 32 issue number 1: Informed consent in neonatal clinical trials, home medical care, biases is data-driven medicine, patient worldviews, moral courage, and physician shadowing.
The ethical issues in pediatrics can vary considerably from those in adult medicine. Thus, ethics education generalized for adult care is not necessarily relevant to the specific issues that arise in pediatric settings. The Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center’s Certificate Program in Pediatric Bioethics is the only program in the world that focuses exclusively on pediatrics.