Providence Center for Health Care Ethics offers a variety of programs for physicians, nurses and other Providence employees. The Center's programs provide participants an opportunity to explore and examine the challenges in medical ethics.
Ethics Education Curriculum
The Ethics Center offers an education program that is comprehensive in scope, targeted to specific audiences and integrated with other education opportunities. These include:
Core Curriculum Program
The Core Curriculum Program is designed for physicians, nurses, and other Providence employees. Courses cover ethical principles and explore key topics encountered in clinical practice.
Ethics Core Curriculum I is open to all hospital staff and employees. It provides the ethical infrastructure for all the Ethics Center’s ethics services. It is an eight-hour program that covers the Providence approach to understanding ethics in health care and introduces participants to the Providence model for ethical decision-making. It also includes a discussion of case studies on topics often encountered by the Ethics Consult Teams, such as clinical conflicts,patient decision-making and professionalism.
Ethics Core Curriculum IIB offers an additional eight hours, focusing on ethical issues at the end of life.
Core Curriculum III programs consist of 90-minute presentations addressing special topics in health care ethics or patient care. Core III programs are often made available to outside audiences via videoconference or pod casting. Past Core Curriculum III speakers include Rabbi Daniel Sinclair, “A Time to be Born and a Time to Die;” Mark Repenshek, Ph.D., “Disparities in Healthcare: Is Ethics Part of the Problem;” Daniel Sokol, Ph.D., “Should Doctors Always Tell the Truth to Patients;” Carol Taylor, R.N., Ph.D., “When Families and Caregivers Disagree;” and Timothy Christie, Ph.D., “Creative and Controversial Ways to Manage Addiction: Learning from the Canadian Experience.”
Ethics Core Curriculum IV offers a four-hour interactive module adderssing competencies in health care, particularly at the end of life.
Grand Rounds
Ethics topics are addressed at Medical Grand Rounds several times a year by center staff or guest speakers as part of ongoing physician education.
Noon Conferences
Noon Conference/Ethics Grand Rounds are held on a regular basis, providing case based education for internal medicine and family practice residents.
Consultation Team Meetings
The Consultation Teams examine challenging cases in medical ethics and provide guidance to physicians, nurses, patients and their families.
Foundations
Providence Center for Health Care Ethics is supported in part by the generosity of our community. You can improve the lives of others by supporting the Providence Foundations.
