Online Course Catalog
Engage in a guided educational experience. Our courses apply ethical principles to health care ethics using video animation scenarios and presentations. Browse our selection, then create a free account, and register for the course.
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About this FREE series: These learning modules offer practical examples of how an ethics consultant might help resolve a dilemma regarding patient treatments. These dilemmas arise from good people having differing perspectives on what is the right course of action. Additional modules will continue to explore the role of the clinical ethicist.
Series 1: The Ethics Consultant
Effective Hospital Ethics Consultation
Chapter 1:
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Prompted by a nurse’s dilemma, observe this hallway consult.
Chapter concepts: the skills and process needed for an ethics consultant or consult team to address an ethical dilemma arising in patient care.
Chapter 2:
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Forming a Hospital Ethics Committee
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Observe a formal Ethics Committee meeting.
Chapter concepts: structure and function of the hospital ethics committee with demonstration of the consultation process review and quality improvement.
Chapter 3:
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Considering Provider Assisted Suicide
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Dr. Chris is struggling in anticipation of an upcoming appointment. Observe his contemplation with a colleague and his course for resolution in a request for assistance with patient suicide.
Chapter concepts: understand the basics ethical issues surrounding physician assisted suicide. Understand some considerations providers face when patients request assisted death.
Chapter 4:
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Praying for a Miracle
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Immerse yourself in the all-too-often ethical dilemma presented by patients and families who want “everything done” for their dying loved one.
Chapter concepts: Managing end-of-life issues with patients and caregivers.
Series Two: Medical Ethics for Millennials
About this series: These courses explore the essential elements of health care ethics for patients, their families, and providers. Each chapter has an introduction, a clinical experience, commentary on the ethical aspects of the case, and questions to guide one’s knowledge and learning.
For each chapter, a teaching guide can be purchased for self or group study. The guide expands upon chapter material with suggestions and answers to navigate through discussion of questions and other tools to supplement learning.
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Video introduction to the dilemma.
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An animated clinical situation.
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Explore the dilemma with our ethicist.
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Apply your learned knowledge.
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Readings on chapter material.
FREE Chapter content:
Teaching Guide Supplement:
$40/chapter (includes tax)
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Answers to each chapter’s discussion questions PLUS “Thought Exercises” on the themes and topics for each chapter
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For a small group format, learners are provided a scenario which allows students to interact with each other spontaneously and extemporaneously. The guide suggests possible interactions.
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A clinical situation is offered for the student learner to act as the ethicist. Possible insights to the discussion are provided to the moderator.
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Using a piece of art, song, or poem, this is a free form exercise for the individual learner or moderator to take the discussion wherever it leads. There are no right or wrong answers.
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Ten multiple choice questions related to the chapter..
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Chapter 1:
Introducing Medical Ethics
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This chapter demonstrates how to identify ethical dilemmas in medicine and the theories and principles which can be used to help think through those dilemmas.
Chapter 2:
Protecting Patient Privacy
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This chapter covers the ethical considerations related to patient confidentiality, pati3ent privacy, and telling your patient the truth, even when the news is bad.
Chapter 3:
Obtaining Informed Consent
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This chapter explores the ethics of informed consent and related considerations, such as shared decision-making, experimentation with human research subjects, and student immersion with patient care at the bedside.
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Chapter 4
Deciding About End-of-Life Treatments
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This chapter deals with the ethical considerations related to caring for patients and their families at the end of life. This is a time of challenge, and for some, crisis, especially when death is eminent or unexpected.
Chapter 5:
Resolving Conflicts in Provider/Patient Values
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This chapter covers the ethical considerations of women and child-bearing and conflicts that may arise between patients and providers. Pregnancy, or difficulties with conception, bring many emotionally charged issues to the physician who cares for women. The rights of patients and the fetus may be in conflict, with the physician squarely in the middle.
In addition, assistive reproductive technology, (ART) and the sale of gametes poses questions related to the meaning of personhood.
Chapter 6:
Navigating Conflicts of Interest
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This chapter addresses issues which are quite topical in medicine today. The limits between one’s personal and professional goals vis a vis their patients and the public may be fraught with ethical conflicts of interest, for example, through the use of social media.
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Chapter 7:
Addressing Health Care Inequity
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This chapter introduces the ethical considerations related to disparities in health and health outcomes for groups and populations whose propensity to illness and lack of well-being is affected by factors other than access to clinical care, personal habits and genetics.
Chapter 8:
Providing Ethical Patient Care as a Team
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This chapter explores the way physicians, pharmacists, and other health care providers, with the support of administration, promote an ethics of care. The ethical theory expands the notions of beneficence and non-maleficence from individual interactions between patient and provider to the best way to deliver patient care as a team with mutual concern and respect for the values and welfare of all members of the healthcare team.