The current Program consists of a variety of educational activities that encompass all four years of medical school, as well as some residency training and premedical education. Since 1985, the Program has developed one of the finest medical professionalism teaching programs in any American medical college. All medical students participate in a required second year course. This course offers a combination of lecture and small group interaction. During the third year of medical school, each student participates in required case presentations during the Family Medicine and Geriatrics Clerkship, the Pediatrics Clerkship, and the Psychiatry Clerkship. Fourth year electives, offered on a variety of topics, are popular.

In 2002, Professor Allen developed and taught a course in Research Ethics for the UF College of Medicine's Masters in Clinical Research degree program, which will be offered on an annual basis. Plans are underway to add sections to this course to provide research ethics education for the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. students.

• Bill Allen, Course Director
• Lecture and large group experience
• Small Group

3rd year: Clerkship Ethics Case Conference

• Bill Allen, Director of Ethics Clerkship Education
• Interdisciplinary Clerkship
• Psychiatry Clerkship
• Pediatrics Clerkship

4th year: Electives

• Special Topics in Medicine (Ray Moseley, Coordinator)
• Law and Ethics in Medicine (Bill Allen and Barbara Noah, Coordinators)
• Ethical Issues in Family Medicine (Ray Moseley, Coordinator)
• History of Medicine (Bill Allen and Beth Chmelik, Coordinators)
• End-of-Life Issues (Jim Wagner, Coordinator)
• Religion, Culture, and Medicine (Bill Allen, Coordinator)
• Ethical and Legal Issues in Managed Care (Ray Moseley and Bill Allen, Coordinators)

PBLMP faculty have also been integral in curriculum development in the College of Medicine, especially in the development of the "core competencies" in medical ethics and law, and in the continuing development of the professional behavior competencies. Faculty members serve on the College of Medicine Curriculum Committee, the Professionalism Task Force, the University of Florida Human Subjects Research Institutional Review Board, the Clinical Research Center (CRC) Advisory Board, and the University of Florida, Genetics Institute Executive Planning Committee.

In October 1999, the Program received a substantial Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) End-of-Life Care Grant as an integral part of the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care. Bill Allen is co-principal investigator and Ray Moseley is an investigator on this grant, which establishes a statewide partnership with a goal to improve end-of-life care through coordination of activities and education, and through impact on state policy. The primary role of the Program in this effort is to coordinate professional and public education activities in the state.

PBLMP faculty continued to play a very active role in the activities of the Shands Hospital Ethics Committee. Jim Wagner serves as co-chair of the committee, and all Program faculty participate in the "on-call" clinical ethics consultation service run by the Ethics Committee. The PBLMP also continues to run an active Clinical Ethics Consultation Service that currently provides 24-hour "on-call" clinical ethics consultation for two hospitals, as well as with the hospitals in the Shands HeathCare System.