The goal of this elective, open to all pediatric and internal medicine/pediatrics house staff, is to expand the resident’s awareness and understanding of the principles of biomedical ethics as they relate to the care of pediatric patients and their families. This includes exposure to contemporary issues confronting medicine, law and biomedical ethics and the development of a vocabulary in ethics. The resident develops a framework for resolution of ethical dilemmas through case discussions, readings and attendance at ethics committee meetings and consultations. The resident meets with the instructors at the beginning of the elective to establish areas of interest as well as individual learning objectives which may include extensive literature review, oral presentation, written essay, and/or preparation for ethics research as part of a senior resident research project.
2006 Residents and Projects:
Michael Ruppe, M.D.
“Forbidden Beneficence: Physician Assisted Suicide in the United States”
Joshua Freedman, M.D.
“Medical Decision-Making in Pediatrics”
Jill Beck, M.D.
“In the Middle of the End: One resident’s view of end-of-life in Pediatric Oncology”
Ross Myers, M.D.
“Informed Consent in the Delivery Room”
Kim Martin, M.D.
“Ethics and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy”
Christina Nordt, M.D.
“Adolescents with Turner Syndrome: Ethics of Diagnosis Disclosure”
Nancy Wasserbauer, D.O.
“Ethical Controversies in Stem Cell Research”
Mark Travassos, M.D.
“The Evolving Debate on Antiretroviral Treatment for HIV in Africa”
Kevin Hall, M.D.
“The Effects of Developments in Western Thoughts on our Understanding and Definitions of Ethics”
Abigail Wald, M.D.
“Equalizing the Burden: A Perspective on Vaccine Refusal”