Clinical Ethics Fellow

4 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Unity Health Toronto Full time

**FELLOWSHIP IN CLINICAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND RESEARCH ETHICS 202**4-2026**

**Overview**

**Program Goals and Vision**

The goal of the program is to graduate fellows who can independently practice as a clinical ethicist (bioethicist, healthcare ethicist), in both faith-based and secular healthcare environments, in the following five domains: clinical consultations, organizational consultations (including policy review), research ethics review, the provision of ethics education, and bioethics scholarship. Through the fellowship program, fellows will gain increased competencies in the following seven roles: ethics expert (the integrating role), communicator, collaborator, leader, health advocate, scholar, professional.

The fellow will be expected to be able to conduct clinical ethics consultations with mínimal supervision by the end of their first year. Upon successful completion of a one-year review (at approximately the 12-month mark), the Fellow will transition to the Senior Fellow role for the second year, which is accompanied by an increase in responsibility and compensation.

The fellowship program supports Unity Health's commitment to promoting health equity and aligned position statements such as the Canadian Bioethics Society's commitment to embracing anti-oppressive and anti-racist actions.

**Program Structure**

A Fellow typically spends the first 3-6 months of their fellowship at Unity Health Toronto, where their time is focused primarily on immersive education and observation. After this period, the Fellow begins to take on greater independence and responsibility, as they embark on a series of clinical rotations across Unity Health (including the 10 health systems served by the Centre for Clinical Ethics) and its fellowship program partners (CAMH, SickKids, and Sinai).

Fellows are expected to work a typical 9am-5pm workday, onsite, with some flexibility for individual preferred work hours outside of this time. Although a Fellow's weekly schedule may vary depending on each rotation site's practices and current needs, approximately 60-80% of a Fellow's time is dedicated to onsite clinical/organizational ethics activities, and approximately 20-40% of a Fellow's time is dedicated to structured learning and scholarship.

Upon successful completion of a one-year review (at approximately the 12-month mark), the Fellow will transition to the Senior Fellow role for the second year, which is accompanied by an increase in compensation and responsibility.

**Compensation**

Fellows receive $54,000 CAD (inclusive of 6% in lieu of vacation) over the course of the first year. The current salary of a Senior Fellow (in the second year of the fellowship) is $61,000 CAD (inclusive of 6% in lieu of vacation). These are the expected yearly salaries a Fellow and Senior Fellow would receive when taking their entitled three weeks of unpaid time off each year. Fellows are entitled to paid statutory holidays. Fellows do not receive paid sick days.

In addition, the CCE will reimburse Fellows for their University of Toronto registration fees, as well as their registration fees and travel expenses for the Canadian Bioethics Society annual conference and (with approval) other relevant conferences. In the second year, the Fellow will receive financial support to complete the Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) certification exam.

As full-time temporary employees at Unity Health Toronto, Fellows are also eligible to participate in the hospital's health insurance program.

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**Eligibility and Selection Criteria**

Although a driver's license and access to a vehicle are not required for the position, a Fellow must be able to arrange their own daily transportation throughout the GTA (including as far east as Oshawa and as far west as Hamilton).

**Accessibility and Accommodation**

**Applying**- A full curriculum vitae (no page limit)-
- A cover letter of 1-3 pagesIn the CV and cover letter statement, applicants may consider emphasizing:
- Their interest in healthcare ethics, motivation for completing this fellowship program, and how it would contribute to their career path-
- Their experiences in clinical, organizational, or research ethics-
- Any unique expertise they have gained that would enrich the discipline's capacities for empirical and conceptual scholarship, ethics program development, evaluation and quality improvement of practice, standardisation and professionalization, community engagement, and knowledge exchange across jurisdictional silos and with the public-
- Their experiences in applied-ethical problem solving, health and social care settings, and/or with patients, service users, or other structurally vulnerable people-
- Their experiences related to consultation, policy review and development, teaching, knowledge mobilization, advocacy, leadership, collaboration, and scholarship- Their sensitivity to faith-based and secular moral reasoning

3. A scholarly project proposal: a 1-2 page state

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