Target Audience and Needs Assessment

Staff physicians and other allied health professionals at theBSLMC need to be regularly updated on the guidelines and challenges related to ethics consultation, clinical ethics practice and the role of ethics in shared clinical decision-making. The series aims to increase knowledge of the learners in these topic areas, and to provide the skills and tools for their implementation in clinical practice in order to enhance the quality of patient care.

Objectives:

At the conclusion of the session, the participants should be able to:

• Identify the ethical principles underlying disputes about medically inappropriate treatment
• Apply contextually-appropriatedefinitions of medical futility to an ethically challenging case.
• Describe several strategies for resolving disagreements about potentially inappropriate treatment

Educational Methods: 

Educational methods will include lecturesandpanel discussion.

Activity Evaluation:

Participants will be asked to complete a session evaluation.

Accreditation/Credit Designation:

Physicians:
Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Baylor College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity has been designated by Baylor College of Medicine for 1 credit of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.

CNE:
CHI St. Luke’s Health Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association Approver, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.Offered only to onsite attendees.

Social Work:
Baylor College of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education (License Number 7270) is an approved continuing education provider for Social Workers through the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners. This activity has been approved for 1 continuing education unit.