Medical Ethics Advisor (Vol. 31, No. 5)

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Release date: May 2015

Valid through: May 2018

Target Audience

This activity is intended for acute care physicians, chiefs of medicine, hospital administrators, nurse managers, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers, and chaplains.

Subjects

Study: Residents uncomfortable with end-of-life conversations
How bioethicists can encourage disclosure of medical errors
Disruptive behavior isn’t always addressed, either in policy or practice
Voice ethical concerns — not just during consults, but organizationwide
Parents eager for newborn genomic testing; ethical questions currently unanswered
Impaired physicians have ethical obligation to self-report, experts say

Objectives

Discuss new developments in regulation and health care system approaches to bioethical issues applicable to specific health care systems;
Explain the implications for new developments in bioethics as it relates to all aspects of patient care and health care delivery in institutional settings;
Discuss the effect of bioethics on patients, their families, physicians, and society.

Credit Available

Physicians

Maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Sponsor

This activity is sponsored by AHC Media.

Accreditation Statement

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation

Physicians

AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Faculty Listing

Authors

Stacey Kusterbeck

Editors

Consulting Editor: Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD

Managing Editor: Jill Drachenberg

Financial Disclosure

Consulting Editor Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD, Executive Editor Russ Underwood, Associate Managing Editor Jill Drachenberg, and Contributing Editor Stacey Kusterbeck report no consultant, stockholder, speakers’ bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study.

Medical Ethics Advisor (Vol. 31, No. 5) - May 1, 2015