With this background accomplished, you are now ready to begin
Year 2 of your medical ethics curriculum.
Plenary session: a brief reprise of Phase I followed by a
discussion of Lesson 1: Ward Team Ethics.
Objective: To explore the dynamics of the ward team and its impact upon the
medical student and his early clinical education, the silent or hidden
curriculum that is extant in ward team functioning and the personal
interrelationship and psychodynamics of ward team members.
Lesson 2: Truth-telling
and the Pediatric Patient: Helping, hurting, or honoring children?
Objective: To explore the physician=s
responsibility to the child as a patient when conveying information about
their health status, care plans, and prognosis. And look at truth-telling as
it pertains to informed consent in pediatrics.
Lesson 3: Informed
Consent and Confidentiality.
Objective: To explore the physician=s
ethical and legal responsibilities for informed, voluntary consent and
confidentiality of patient information.
Lesson 4: Impaired
Colleague.
Objective: To explore the effects of substance abuse upon the physician,
patients and colleagues; professional, ethical and legal responsibilities to
all affected, and a practical approach to the problem.
Lesson 5: Reproductive
Health Issues.
Objective: To explore the interaction of physician and patient in the arena
of reproduction, within pluralistic society, with consideration of increasing
technologies requiring a host of moral and ethical decisions, and involving
interaction of women, their partners, health care providers and government.
Lesson 6: Death and Dying.
Objectives: To explore the impact of the dying process upon the
student/physicians, their patients and families, and the difficult decisions
that must be made.