Need some educational help? Try these seminars
Educating new ethics committee members just got a little easier, thanks to two courses being offered in the coming months.
1. The Midwest Intensive Bioethics Course 1998 will be held July 13 to 17 at Northwestern Univer sity Medical School in Chicago. The theme for this year's course is Method in Bioethics: Philoso phy, Law, Narrative.
"It's an educational experience in biomedical ethics that's practical but also stimulating and fun," explains Kristen Tym, coordinator of the program.
The course is being sponsored by North western University Medical School in Chicago, the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Real-life issues explored
"The program will explore the issues that are on the minds of frontline health care professionals. For example, it will explore questions about reproductive choices, the use of genetic information, decision making for neonatal and pediatric patients, the process of informed consent, ethical issues raised by managed care, and end-of-life decision making," she adds.
In keeping with the theme of the course, issues will be viewed in light of how health care provid ers, philosophers, lawyers, and narrative theorists would address them. Methods of instruction will include case discussion, history, literature, and film in an interactive, problem-solving environment. Tuition for the five-day course is $700. A limited number of partial scholarships will be available. Students may attend for $250. (For registration information, see source box, above.)
2. The Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics will be offered by the University of Washington School of Medicine Aug. 3 to 7, 1998.
Sponsored by the school's department of medical history and ethics, the seminar is geared to physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, teachers, and others involved in the care of patients or education of providers. The seminar will provide an intensive introduction to the concepts, methods, and literature of health care ethics.
"The course will provide participants with skills and information to enable them to make competent and ethical decisions in clinical situations," says Marilyn J. Barnard, seminar program coordinator.
Careful attention will be paid to methods of case analysis and discussion of cases, Barnard adds. Participants in further study may apply for a one-year program of correspondence study with a follow-up seminar, which leads to a certificate in health care ethics. The seminar will be held at the University of Washington Health Sciences Center in the school of medicine's complex.
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