2020 Webinar Archive

The pandemic has disrupted education at all levels. In the context of medical education, the requisite that students’ training consists of in-person patient encounters during their clinical rotations has presented new dilemmas. Some schools introduced so-called ‘liability waivers’, wherein students would waive their right to legal action should they develop COVID-19 resulting from clinical rotations.

COVID-19 has enlightened the biomedical and medical community to challenges and ethical decisions that need to be deliberated or ameliorated in a community. One of the recent deliberations looks at the distribution schema to the population should a vaccine be shown to be effective and become available.

Patricia Bayless, MD, FACEP, MIHM, discusses the “Duty to Treat” which health professionals promise under the social contract. The social contract is generally defined as an implicit agreement in which society has granted certain privileges (such as status, financial reward, and self-regulation,) to professionals, and in return for those privileges expects the individuals providing health care in all capacities to be competent, moral, and altruistic and also expects them to treat the medical needs of individual patients.

In this webinar Dr. Ratto explores how different generations are interacting in the workplace, education, and life. Ratto explores differences between the silent gens, the boomers, gen x, millennials, and gen z and talks about how these generations came to be and how those differences are creating cultural and equality differences in our society.

This presentation uses case examples to generate thought and conversation around the perceived use of just culture in the health care system to improve care through shared accountability and the interpretation of just culture from a legal standpoint when patient injury occurs.

Christopher Robertson, JD, PhD, authored Exposed; Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About Itin 2019. The book is a culmination of a decade of scholarly research and Robertson shares the findings in his book with us in this webinar.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been in the international conversation among health care professionals and the public. We have invited a panel of hospice owners and hospice workers to share with us some of the ethical, legal, and physical challenges they are facing in this pandemic.

How has the field of genetics entered medical practice? There are two states in which a physician reaches ethical crossroads with genetic testing. The first is determining whether or not to order genetic testing for a patient.

Join us as Kathleen O’Connor leads us through an ethics bedside consultation. O’Connor starts at the bedside of the patient and prepares the case for presentation to the ethics committee.

Dr. Mayer leads the discussion on the current controversies on determining death. How have new technologies, definitions, and transplant requests challenged the Uniform Determination of Death Act of 1981?