Overview

Careers

Biomedical Ethics and Law - Medical Track graduates at ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology will be qualified to pursue academic careers in biomedical ethics, to contribute to ethics committees, and use their expertise to advance their medical work in clinical practice or clinical research.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Biomedical Ethics
Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Methods in Biomedical Ethics
Approaches and Ways of Legal Thinking
Medical and Health Care Law
Research Colloquium

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-19 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-05-01 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

Credits

12 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Biomedical Science Ethics View 8 other PhDs in Biomedical Science in Switzerland

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Accidents
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Other requirements

General requirements

Medical doctors, biomedical and other scholars with a strong interest in biomedical ethics are eligible to apply to the medical track.
Applicants should have completed a Master’s degree (or equivalent), demonstrated academic excellence and be fluent in English as the PhD BmEL/medical track is an English language program.

Tuition Fee

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International

1460 CHF/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 730 CHF per semester during 36 months.
National

1460 CHF/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 730 CHF per semester during 36 months.

Living costs for Zürich

1920 - 2572 CHF /month

Living costs

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