This course attempts to help students provide answers to the question: “What does it mean to be an ethical healthcare professional?” Geared specifically for doctoral level healthcare students, the course begins by delving into ethical theory and then quickly synthesizing the codes of ethics of healthcare professions. Students then analyze what it means to go beyond the code of ethics in their own practice in order to be an ethical healthcare professional, aided by concepts from traditional ethical theory, as well as more recent considerations in healthcare ethics, including issues pertaining to social justice, phenomenological research, and particularly studies on what it means to empathize with individuals in a healthcare setting in order to provide person-centered care