Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Sarah Rodriguez, PhD
Lecturer, Medical Education
Lecturer, Global Health Studies
Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program
Member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Northwestern University

Playing With Ethics: Using a Game to Teach Global Health Research Ethics to Undergraduate Students in the United States

Within the last decade global health opportunities have become quite popular in medical schools in the United States with students seeking ways to meaningfully contribute. Medical schools, however, are not the only part of a university offering opportunities and encouraging experiences abroad. There has been a parallel growth in global health on the undergraduate level with a similar focus on offering and encouraging opportunities from service learning, to study, to research. This talk focuses on the latter, research–specifically, a method of teaching American undergraduate students planning on doing research abroad in a low-or-middle income country how to consider some of the ethical questions and concerns that may arise while they are proposing their research topic, that may arise when they are doing their research, and that may arise after their research is finished and they have returned to their home university. This method of teaching is through the use of a board game. I will explain how students play the game and their reactions to it. I will conclude by discussing the intention of the game and why using the game is a meaningful way to encourage students to think about research that engages with the lives of others.