University of Richmond Receives Foundation Grant to Prepare Health Care Leaders

June 9, 2006

The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation has made a grant to University of Richmond to prepare students for leadership roles in health care.

“The project will increase students’ understanding of and ability to address ethical and policy challenges in health care,” explained John Vaughan, director of pre-health education at the university. Vaughan and the Jepson School of Leadership Studies are jointly administering the $80,000 grant.

Activities to be undertaken with grant funds include offering a physician-led healing arts course on a permanent basis as part of a proposed medical humanities minor and creating a course “Leadership and Ethical Decision Making in Health Care.” Also the university will establish Claude Moore Internships so students can apply the skills learned from the courses.

A Claude Moore Lecture also will be established as part of the Jepson Leadership Forum to extend the consideration of ethical leadership in medicine across the campus and community.

Finally, the university will encourage other colleges and universities to add courses on leadership in health care to their offerings by adding Richmond’s course to the series Teaching Responsible Leadership in specific fields being developed by a team of colleges.