Bioethics

[girlspowerss]

Is a Bioethics course considered a science course? Does it qualify as a BCPM (GPA)?

This is the course description:

BIO 430: This course covers ethical issues raised as a result of modern advances in biotechnology which directly affect the quality of human life. Bioethics comprises every possible aspect of health care: medical, moral, political, religious, legal and financial. It scrutinizes outmoded laws and deals with the enormous growth in available medical services. It takes into account our views of ourselves as members of a humane society.

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[jturkel]

Is a Bioethics course considered a science course? Does it qualify as a BCPM (GPA)?
This is the course description:
This course covers ethical issues raised as a result of modern advances in biotechnology which directly affect the quality of human life. Bioethics comprises every possible aspect of health care: medical, moral, political, religious, legal and financial. It scrutinizes outmoded laws and deals with the enormous growth in available medical services. It takes into account our views of ourselves as members of a humane society.

no. it is a philosophy course.

i have taken medical ethics and bioethics and can tell you its not part of the BCPM GPA

 

[greatnt249]

Is a Bioethics course considered a science course? Does it qualify as a BCPM (GPA)?

This is the course description:

BIO 430: This course covers ethical issues raised as a result of modern advances in biotechnology which directly affect the quality of human life. Bioethics comprises every possible aspect of health care: medical, moral, political, religious, legal and financial. It scrutinizes outmoded laws and deals with the enormous growth in available medical services. It takes into account our views of ourselves as members of a humane society.

If anything, it would fall under humanities, not natural science.

 

[Quix]

no. it is a philosophy course.

i have taken medical ethics and bioethics and can tell you its not part of the BCPM GPA

This.

 

[LizzyM]

I would tend to concur but if it carries a BIO designation it might slip past AMCAS.

 

[GemelloMD]

I don't think that just because it has BIO in the name that it will slip by AMCAS considering that they look at course numbers, i.e. PHL 301 Bioethics. Unless the Bioethics class was registered in your catalog as BIO ### Bioethics I think it's outside of the BCPM. At least that's how my Philosophy of Science and Bioethics work has been.

 

[LizzyM]

I don't think that just because it has BIO in the name that it will slip by AMCAS considering that they look at course numbers, i.e. PHL 301 Bioethics. Unless the Bioethics class was registered in your catalog as BIO ### Bioethics I think it's outside of the BCPM. At least that's how my Philosophy of Science and Bioethics work has been.

The OP said it was BIO 430. That's why I think it might count as BIOlogy.

 

[girlspowerss]

Yes, it is called BIO 430: Bioethics
It is under Biology at my school

 

[randombetch]

I don't think that just because it has BIO in the name that it will slip by AMCAS considering that they look at course numbers, i.e. PHL 301 Bioethics. Unless the Bioethics class was registered in your catalog as BIO ### Bioethics I think it's outside of the BCPM. At least that's how my Philosophy of Science and Bioethics work has been.

lols

 

[girlspowerss]

It is under my course catalogue as BIO
it is called BIO 430: Bioethics

 

[bannie22]

if it is caterogized as bio at her school, where they knw the curicullum it wud be just weird if amcas flipped it over to a non-bio course

 

[girlspowerss]

So... Is the Bioethics course at my school (BIO 430) considered a science course? Does it qualify as a BCPM (GPA)?

 

[bannie22]

I think you should call AMCAS and check with them, i think us here on sdn can only really speculate on what it really is...

 

[girlspowerss]

It carries a BIO designation...
AMCAS said it depends on the course's contents. If it has Biology in the course then it is a Bio class.