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Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

Ethics

 
  Seminars offered per year: Four times per school year - about every 3 months.
Seminar Leaders: Members of HEC case consultation teams:
   Thomas P. Gonsoulin, M.D., M.P.S. (Otolaryngology)
   Don Owens, Ph.D. (Psychology, Chaplain)
   Whit Tabor, BCSW (Social Work-TUHC social services)
   Timothy Pearman, Ph.D. (Psychology-Cancer Center)
   Karen Pejsach, R.N. (Nurse-Psychiatry)
   Eban McClanahan, M.D. (Psychiatry)
   Robert Martensen, M.D., Ph.D. (History of Medicine)
   Ted Remley, Ph.D., J.D., UNO Counseling Dept.

Offered:

  • October 26th, 2005 at 1:00pm
  • December 7th, 2005 at 1:00pm
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Supporting Documents

Goals and Objectives

  1. Apply accumulated clinical knowledge and experience to a real case involving ethical decision-making.
  2. Experience and participate in the process used by the hospital ethics committee to prepare and analyze case consults.
  3. Through case analysis and discussion, learn to apply the four basic principles of biomedical ethics (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice).
  4. Learn to identify multiple perspectives in ethical dilemma cases.

Students
Minimum Number: 4
Maximum Number: 15

Agenda

  1. Short didactic presentation: 30 minutes
    1. Present the ethics consultation process.
    2. Distribute case consultation format.
    3. Discuss issues that commonly arise and require ethics Case consultation.
  2. Mock Ethics Case Consultation: 120 minutes
    1. Assign each student a role: patient, family, nurse, treating physician, social worker, risk manager, HEC member.
    2. Faculty serves as coach for students in their roles.
    3. Present case/interview participants as appropriate,
    4. Do case analysis according to HEC format.
      1. Discuss roles, principles, applications, case issues, pursue varied perspectives.
      2. Execute decision-making process.
      3. Make recommendation. Defend.
  3. Student case presentation: 30 minutes
    Opportunity for students to present/discuss any cases or situations they have encountered which would raise ethical concerns.
    Question and answer period.
 
   
 

 

 

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