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Ethical Challenges
of Physician Executives
Course Description
How much treatment is too much when a patient is terminally ill? What is a physician's obligation when the mother of a critically ill child refuses consent for a recommended treatment? When an HIV patient practices risky behavior, how do you balance the patient's right to privacy against public welfare? How should organizational resources be responsibly managed, especially when a healthcare organization is facing serious financial challenges?
As a physician executive, are you equipped to deal with today's complex and perplexing ethical issues? This program will help you take a leadership role in developing processes for resolving ethical issues facing physicians, patients and their families.
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Target Audience
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Other topics include:
- Building ethics into your organization's culture, especially its policies and procedures.
- Preventing and managing ethical conflicts at the bedside.
- Responsibly managing your organization’s resources.
- Responding to patients’ refusals of needed medical interventions.
- Setting ethically justified limits on individual and organizational self-sacrifice.
- Invoking futility to set ethically justified limits on end-of-life care.
- Putting your institution to the test: gauging its commitment to ethics.
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Course Objectives »
- To demonstrate familiarity with basic concepts of bioethics, such as professional virtues, beneficence, respect for autonomy, justice, the fiduciary nature of the medical profession, and preventive ethics.
- To demonstrate ability to apply basic concepts in a preventive ethics approach to both clinical cases and cases in institutional management.
- To take a leadership role in framing and monitoring the ethics of one's institution.
CME
InterAct (with online session dates) – 12 CME Credits (Prerequisite Degree Elective or CPE Core)
InterAct Express (self study) - 5 CME Credits (Prerequisite Degree Elective or CPE Core)
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Potential Conflicts of Interest
Consistent with ACPE CME policies, everyone involved in the development, management, presentation and evaluation of this CME activity has provided full disclosure information, and there are no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Faculty Credentials
Method of Physician Participation
InterAct (with online session) - To earn CME credit, you must watch all the lectures for this course, read the course materials, participate in posting in the online discussion area and complete an online CME quiz. InterAct courses (with online session) concludes at the end of the session date. Estimated time to complete course- 12 hours over a six-week period.
InterAct Express (self-study) - To earn CME credit, you must watch all the lectures for this course, and read the course materials and complete an online CME quiz. Estimated time to complete course- 5 hours.
Evaluation Method
Each ACPE CME activity includes an evaluation process to determine that the learning objectives have been met and that the activity was of educational value to the target audience and was unbiased. The evaluation also assesses whether or not the CME activity resulted in a change in physician practice behavior and offers participants a method of feedback.
Course formats and materials
InterAct Full (with online session): course video lectures and readings on DVD, course booklet included, website for video lectures, readings and discussion work.
InterAct Express (self-study): course video lectures and readings on the ACPE website only. Course text book included, website for lectures, readings, there is no online discussion or assignments for Express.
Interact Requirements
System: Microsoft Windows 2000 or later / Mac OS X v10.4 or later
Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or later / Safari 3.x or later / Firefox 3.x Windows.
(Firefox for Macintosh is NOT supported)
 Flash and Adobe Reader required.
Accreditation — The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation for InterAct (with online session) — The American College of Physician Executives designates this live activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Designation for InterAct Express— The American College of Physician Executives designates this enduring material for a maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Original Course Release Date (InterAct distance education only) — August 2010.
Course Termination Date (InterAct distance education only) — August 2013.
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