Research Projects

Current research projects at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities include:

• Consent and neurocognition
• Grief management among resident physicians
• Dynamic computer modeling of the health care workforce
• Error disclosure by nursing staff
• Validation of professionalism and ethics assessment
• Effect of embedded ethics curriculum on empathy and moral judgment among health care students
• The role of insanity diagnoses in 19th century murder trials in Mississippi
• Attributions of cause of death as affected by perceived moral intentions of physicians
• Perceptions of cheating as affected by ADHD medication use