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Graduate Diploma of Marriage and Family Studies
Graduate Diploma of Bioethics
Master of Theology (Marriage and Family)
Master of Bioethics
Masters in Sacred Theology (Marriage and Family)
Masters and Specialist Courses and Theses
Doctoral Programmes
Auditing particular courses (not-for-degree)
Seminars and conferences
Courses for Teachers, RECs and School Counsellors
Ethics for health and aged care professionals, pastoral carers and managers
Spiritual and professional development opportunities
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Ethics for health and aged care professionals, pastoral carers and managers
The challenges in health and aged care ethics today are enormous. Issues regularly arise in areas such as confidentiality, appropriate patient care, care of special groups such as the frail elderly, patient directives, fertility, genetics, pregnancy, transplantation, new treatments, research. Managers have to face questions in resource allocation, collaboration with government and other providers, tendering, mission and ethos. And there are the high profile topics like abortion, euthanasia, cloning. Administrators and clinical staff are confronted with ethical dilemmas of one kind or another every day, and with the pace of technological, bureaucratic and cultural change can often feel 'at sea without a compass'.
To answer this need the John Paul II Institute offers:
- seminars and workshops
- individual units in bioethics not-for-assessment
- Graduate Diploma in Bioethics
- Masters in Bioethics
- Doctorate in Bioethics
All have been created with the specific needs of health and aged care professionals, pastoral carers and managers in mind-offering the best of contemporary thought from within the Catholic tradition, as well as secular philosophy, the human sciences, pastoral care and the day-to-day experience of health and aged care. The diploma and masters degrees focus both on fundamental issues and on healthcare dilemmas and contemporary life issues to assist health professionals to respond to these issues sensitively, compassionately and in a principled way.
Bioethicist Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, and Dr Nicholas Tonti-Filipinni (both Permanent Fellows of the Institute) will be joined by a range of local and international lecturers to offer for the first time a world class Catholic bioethics programme in Melbourne! As one of the team which prepared the recent Catholic Health Australia Code of Ethical Standards for Health and Aged Care Services in Australia, he is up to date on the latest developments in ethics in the sector.
Advantages of taking part in a John Paul II Institute programme:
- international visiting professors, world class local lecturers
- courses focused on real health and aged care issues and topical concerns
- variety of teaching modes, small class sizes, personalised teaching
- excellent facilities and bioethics library
- Catholic environment with opportunities for spirituality along with the classes
Full or part scholarships may be possible.
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