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2024 Newsletters

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Newsletter Archives

January

  • Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
  • Publication Highlight: Religious character of secular arguments supporting euthanasia and what it implies for conscientious practice in medicine

February

  • Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
  • Publication Highlight: ‘A valued voice’: A qualitative analysis of parental decision-making preferences in emergent paediatric surgery
  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Ethical Challenges with ECPR
  • Humanities Corner: poem by Samantha Parks, M4

March

  • Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
  • Publication Highlight: “Reading the room:” A qualitative analysis of pediatric surgeons’ approach to clinical counseling
  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Challenging Patient-Provider Relationships
  • Humanities Corner: Reflection by Faizan Khawaja, M4

April

  • Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
  • Publication Highlight: Listening Lessons by Brittany Bettendorf, MD, MFA
  • Humanities Corner: Drawing and Reflection by Nicole Hehr, M3 

May

  •  Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
  • Humanities Corner: Poem by Mariam Mansour, M4

June

  • 2023 Ethics in Healthcare Conference
  • Publication Highlight: Practical Wisdom in Medicine
  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Physician-Assisted Suicide
  • Humanities Corner: Essay by John Nelson, M3

July

  • Publication Highlight: Gaudeamus Igitur at 40—A Tribute and Assessment
  • Humanities Corner: Essay by Melissa Sheber, M3

August

  • Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM
  • Humanities Corner: Haiku and Reflection by Benjamin Linden, M4

 September

  • Publication Highlight: Evaluation of a novel question prompt list in pediatric surgical oncology 
  • Humanities Corner: Haiku and Reflection by Jacqueline Smart, M4
  • Literary Highlight from CCOM Faculty Member: Gold and Iron 

 October 

  • Humanities Corner: Written Reflection by Jessie Chu, M4

 November

  • Publication Highlight: Moral distress, conscientious practice, and the endurance of ethics in health care through times of crisis and calm
  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: How do we show compassion?
  • Humanities Corner: Creative Work by Jacob Schroeder, M4

 December 

  • Publication Highlight: Practical wisdom in medicine through the eyes of medical students and physicians
  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Assessing and supporting surrogate decision makers
  • Humanities Corner: Illustration and reflection by Anna Clemens, M4

January

  • Publication Highlight: Medical Education and the Ethics of Self-Care

February

  • Topic of the Month: Ethics in Intensive Care

March

  • Program Highlight: Physician influence in shared decision making podcast
  • Publication Highlight: A careful balance of the benefits and burdens of pediatric ECMO
  • Topic of the Month: Goals of care communication

April

  • Topic of the Month: Ethics in Decision Making for Peri-Viable Delivery

May

  • Program Highlight: Should we practice what we preach: Medical school and the ethics of self-care
  • Publication Highlight: To inform, recommend, and sometimes persuade: The ethics of physician influence in shared decision making
  • Topic of the Month: The ethics of alleviating suffering while avoiding harm with opioid use at the end of life

June

  • Publication Highlight: Attending to the Existential Experience in Oncology
  • Topic of the Month: Professional Boundaries in Healthcare

July

August

  • Humanities Corner (New): watercolor by Sarah Stueve, M4

September

  • Program Highlight: Ethics Summer Research Fellowship for CCOM Medical Students
  • Publication Highlight: "Reading the room": A qualitative analysis of pediatric surgeons' approach to clinical counseling

October

  • Topic of the Month: Calibrating our Responses to Medical Futility
  • Humanities Corner: Haiku by Samantha Metzger, M4

November

  • Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
  • Topic of the Month: "Potentially Nonbeneficial" CPR
  • Humanities Corner: poem by CCOM medical student (anonymous)

December

  • Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
  • Topic of the Month: Decision-Making in Pediatric Patients
  • Humanities Corner: painting and written reflection by Erin Sullivan, M4

January

  • Publication Highlight: Communication About Medical Errors
  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Ethical Issues Surrounding Autonomy - Limiting Diagnoses such as Anorexia Nervosa

February

  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Trisomy 18

March

  • Publication Highlight: Discrepancies in Decision Making Preferences Between Patients and Surgeons in Pediatric Surgery
  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Moral Community

April

  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: The Partial Code
  • Bioethics Resource of the Month: Case Studies and Educational Resources
  • Literary Highlight from a CCOM Faculty Member: The Great Dimming of 2020

May

  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Goals of Care Discussions

June

  • Publication Highlight: Why Truthfulness is the First of the Virtues
  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: The Unrepresented Patient

July

  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Brain Death

August

  • Bioethics Resource of the Month: The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline
  • Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM

September

October

November

December

  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: Goals of Care Discussions

January

  • Publication Highlight: A Brief Video Intervention to Improve Medical Students' Attitudes Toward Prisoners
  • Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: To Allow Not To Be?

February

  • Publication Highlight: Becoming a Role Model
  • Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Palliative Sedation in End of Life Care

March

  • Publication Highlight: Clarifying Core Content of Goals of Care Discussions
  • Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Social Media and the Patient-Provider Relationship

April

  • Bioethics Resource: COVID-19 Ethics Resources

May

  • Publication Highlight: Practicing the Ethics We Teach in International Medical Education
  • Ethics Resource: COVID-19 Ethics Resources

June

July

August

  • Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM

September

  • Publication Highlight: Shared Decision Making in Surgery: A Scoping Review of Patient and Surgeon Preferences

October

  • Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Recognizing and Responding to Existential Distress/Suffering in the Clinical Setting

November

  • Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Understanding the Role of Chronic Stress in People of Color and Need for Justice in Research

December

  • Bioethics Topic of the Month: The Ethics of Caregivers - Controlled Analgesia at the End-of-Life

January

  • Publication Highlight: In Support of Goals-of-Care Discussions in Shared Decision Making - An Extended Response to the Rejoinders

February

  • Publication Highlight: Reconceptualizing Harms and Benefits in the Genomic Age

March

  • Bioethics Resource: International Compilation of Human Research Standards

April

May

  • Publication Highlight: Prospect Theory Concepts Applied to family Members of Nursing Home Residents with Cancer: A Good Ending is a Gain

June

July

August

  • Publication Highlight: Navigating the Choppy Waters Between Public Safety and Humane Care of the Prisoner-Patient: The Role of the Ethics Consultant

September

  • In Memoriam: Richard M. Caplan, MD.  July 16, 1929 - August 20, 2019

October

  • Publication Highlight: Wisdom in Medical Decision Making

November

  • Publication Highlight: Ethical Issues Encountered During the Medical Student Surgical Clerkship
  • Bioethics Resource: Physician Aid in Dying - What It Is and What Isn't

December

  • Publication Highlight: Attitudes About Sickness Presenteeism in Medical Training: Is There a Hidden Curriculum?
  • Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Evaluation of a Surrogate Decision-Maker - What if the Surrogate Does not Seem to Represent the Patient's Previously Expressed Wishes?