Residency Ethics Program
This 18-month track, a collaboration between the School of Medicine and the EthicsCenter, will provide residents and fellows at the School of Medicine with foundational knowledge and skills to 1) prepare for in-depth contributions to health care system ethics committees and ethics consultation services and 2) utilize ethical thinking in clinical care, teaching, and scholarship.
Learning Objectives:
- To acquire basic knowledge about ethical theories as a basis for action
- To identify ethical issues in clinical care and develop initial skills for addressing them, including experience with ethics infrastructure in health care systems
- To utilize ethics analytical skills to address an issue in your clinical specialty/department
Outcome:
Upon completion of the track, residents will be awarded a certificate of distinction in ethics from the School of Medicine.
Components:
Core Curriculum
- Ethics course—participation in and engaged learning curriculum with six two-hour, monthly sessions over the fall and early winter. (Typically 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.)
- Healthcare Ethics Conference—two-day Emory Healthcare Ethics conference in spring, with interdisciplinary participants throughout the Southeast
- Small-group implementation sessions—periodic, hour-long, small-group check-in sessions, post the spring conference
Experiential Learning
- Committee membership
- Participate in one of the Emory Healthcare or affiliated ethics committees
Teaching Experience
- Participate in one or more teaching opportunities—e.g., ethics sessions for medical students in the participant’s specialty; ethics selective during medical school capstone; conference poster session
Capstone Project
- Prepare an ethics project for implementation in a clinical site, IRB-reviewed clinical ethics research project; educational or quality-improvement project
- Poster presentation of project/research at Emory Healthcare Ethics Conference subsequent year; possible poster presentation at professional specialty conference
Mentorship
- Faculty mentors from the Ethics Center and the participant’s department