Updated September 7, 2010
The Provincial Health Ethics Network (PHEN) of Alberta is a non-profit organization which provides resources on addressing ethical issues related to health. PHEN does not advocate for or take positions on particular ethical issues; its role is to facilitate thoughtful, informed and reasoned ethical decision-making from all perspectives.
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PHEN is seeking an Intern to conduct research, provide programme support, develop materials and assist with special projects. PHEN will commit to providing the intern with a basic orientation to the field of health ethics from both a theoretical and practical perspective, exposure to ...
PHEN chooses and regularly distributes to its members a particularly useful, interesting and current health ethics article. The Summer 2010 Featured Article was recently distributed: If I Could Say Five Things by George C. Webster, Clinical Ethicist at St. Boniface General Hospital in...
The new Manitoba Provincial Health Ethics Network (MB-PHEN) recently launched its website, a portal for health care providers to link to health ethics resources and strategies in Manitoba and beyond. MB-PHEN was created in 2009 as a collaboration of Manitoba RHAs. The goal of MB-PHEN ...
PHEN is pleased to be celebrating over a decade of innovative, accessible and high quality health ethics education with the 11th offering of its distance education course Introduction to Bioethics. The course, running from January to May 2011, has been designed to bridge the gap betwe...
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