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.

Highlights include:

Building ethics into your organization's organizational 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.

release date: 1/00, revised: 09/06

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.

Faculty

Laurence McCullough, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine

InterAct Express

Ethical Challenges of Physician Executives

Course Description

release date: 1/00, revised: 09/06

Objectives

Faculty

Laurence McCullough, PhD

CME

5 CME Credits (Graduate Degree Section 1 Elective)

Delivery

Video on CD

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