Also called: Hospital Ethics Consultant
Helps doctors, patients, and families make hard medical decisions, like when to stop life support.
Gets paged to the ICU to help a family and doctors who disagree about continuing treatment, listens to everyone, and guides them toward a decision.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Doctorate (PhD), about 10 years after high school. PhD in philosophy or bioethics, or a medical/nursing degree plus ethics training (HEC-C certification).
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Philosophy, Bioethics, Nursing.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years). Estimate.
Low risk for 10 years. Sitting with families and doctors in the ICU to work through hard choices is deeply human moral guidance.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Psychology, Speech and debate.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-3099.
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