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2025 Newsletters
January
February
Newsletter Archives
2024
2024
January
Publication Highlight: We need role fidelity and integrity to avoid moral compartmentalization, not sphere or role moralities
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Shared Decision Making for ECMO Discontinuation
February
Publication Highlight: Epidemics and the Healthcare Professional's Duty to Care
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Narrative Ethics
March
Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 30, 2025
April
Publication Highlight: Ethical and professional issues encountered by fourth-year medical students during a critical care clerkship before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Miracle language in the clinical setting
May
Publication Highlight: The aging surgeon: Planning for retirement across all stages of one's surgical career
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Voluntary stopping eating and drinking
June
- Publication Highlight: Persuasion in healthcare needs virtue, narrative and relational concept of autonomy
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Access to palliative care and ethno-cultural diversity
July
- Publication Highlight: To procure organs for transplantation, normothermic regional perfusion and brain death dislocate circulation and brain from an integrated concept of embodied persons
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Approaching behavioral disorders from a social determinants lens
August
- Publication Highlight: "I didn't know what I didn't know." Assessment of adolescent oncology patient engagement in decision-making
September
- Webinar Highlight: AI's Impact on Healthcare
October
November
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Shared Decision Making and the Ethics of Persuasion
December
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Unique Challenges at the End of Life for Interactive Pediatric Patients
2023
2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
- Humanities Corner: Poem by Mariam Mansour, M4
- 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
- Publication Highlight: Gaudeamus Igitur at 40—A Tribute and Assessment
- Humanities Corner: Essay by Melissa Sheber, M3
- Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM
- Humanities Corner: Haiku and Reflection by Benjamin Linden, M4
- 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
- Humanities Corner: Written Reflection by Jessie Chu, M4
- 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
- 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
2022
2022
- Publication Highlight: Medical Education and the Ethics of Self-Care
- Topic of the Month: Ethics in Intensive Care
- 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
- Topic of the Month: Ethics in Decision Making for Peri-Viable Delivery
- 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
- Publication Highlight: Attending to the Existential Experience in Oncology
- Topic of the Month: Professional Boundaries in Healthcare
- Humanities Corner (New): watercolor by Sarah Stueve, M4
- 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
- Topic of the Month: Calibrating our Responses to Medical Futility
- Humanities Corner: Haiku by Samantha Metzger, M4
- Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
- Topic of the Month: "Potentially Nonbeneficial" CPR
- Humanities Corner: poem by CCOM medical student (anonymous)
- 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
2021
2021
- Publication Highlight: Communication About Medical Errors
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Ethical Issues Surrounding Autonomy - Limiting Diagnoses such as Anorexia Nervosa
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Trisomy 18
- Publication Highlight: Discrepancies in Decision Making Preferences Between Patients and Surgeons in Pediatric Surgery
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Moral Community
- 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
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Goals of Care Discussions
- Publication Highlight: Why Truthfulness is the First of the Virtues
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: The Unrepresented Patient
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Brain Death
- Bioethics Resource of the Month: The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline
- Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: Goals of Care Discussions
2020
2020
- Publication Highlight: A Brief Video Intervention to Improve Medical Students' Attitudes Toward Prisoners
- Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: To Allow Not To Be?
- Publication Highlight: Becoming a Role Model
- Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Palliative Sedation in End of Life Care
- Publication Highlight: Clarifying Core Content of Goals of Care Discussions
- Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Social Media and the Patient-Provider Relationship
- Bioethics Resource: COVID-19 Ethics Resources
- Publication Highlight: Practicing the Ethics We Teach in International Medical Education
- Ethics Resource: COVID-19 Ethics Resources
- Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM
- Publication Highlight: Shared Decision Making in Surgery: A Scoping Review of Patient and Surgeon Preferences
- Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Recognizing and Responding to Existential Distress/Suffering in the Clinical Setting
- Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Understanding the Role of Chronic Stress in People of Color and Need for Justice in Research
- Bioethics Topic of the Month: The Ethics of Caregivers - Controlled Analgesia at the End-of-Life
2019
2019
- Publication Highlight: In Support of Goals-of-Care Discussions in Shared Decision Making - An Extended Response to the Rejoinders
- Publication Highlight: Reconceptualizing Harms and Benefits in the Genomic Age
- Bioethics Resource: International Compilation of Human Research Standards
- Publication Highlight: Prospect Theory Concepts Applied to family Members of Nursing Home Residents with Cancer: A Good Ending is a Gain
- Publication Highlight: Navigating the Choppy Waters Between Public Safety and Humane Care of the Prisoner-Patient: The Role of the Ethics Consultant
- In Memoriam: Richard M. Caplan, MD. July 16, 1929 - August 20, 2019
- Publication Highlight: Wisdom in Medical Decision Making
- 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?