Medical Ethics in Daily Practice Elective

1. Pablo Rodriguez del Pozo, MD

1. General Internal Medicine

1. Al Amal Hospital (NCCCR) / Enaya

1. Medicine Clerkship
2. Surgery Clerkship
3. Pediatrics Clerkship
4. Primary Care Clerkship
5. Psychiatry Clerkship
6. Ob-Gyn Clerkship
7. Interview w/ Sponsor
8. One Month Cancellation Notice

Course Overview:

A two-week highly experiential, immersive clerkship in medical ethics, for fourth year students to promote self-reflective and humanistic practice, and to develop clinical ethics decision-making skills at the bedside. The course has a secondary focus on improving competency in end-of-life care

Course Objectives: 

Knowledge:

Identify psychosocial and contextual factors that influence care (how we do medicine when we do medicine)

Identify the patient's personal history or personal narrative.

Identify ethical and legal issues at the bedside, paying attention to the end-of-life issues.

Identify principles of pain and symptom management.

Skills:

To make ethical diagnosis and suggest courses of action at the bedside.

To apply ethical principles to patient care.

To communicate in an effective and humanistic manner with patients and their families.

To apply principles of pain and symptom management.

To envision models of patient advocacy.

Attitudes:

Foster professionalism in the care of patients throughout the life cycle.

Assume responsibility and make decisions towards the development of competence in both the humanistic and scientific dimensions of patient care.

Appreciate the importance of respecting cultural diversity and differing patient values.

Evaluation:

Attendance at all sessions and seminar participation

Floor Activities

Daily log for 2 weeks

1500 to 3000 word case write-up on one of the assigned patients