Educational Credits (June 1-5, 2009)

  

Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, social workers, hospice staff, clergy, philosophers/academics, government agency policymakers

Learning Objectives of the Intensive Bioethics Course are as follows:

Participants will be:

  • introduced to both the philosophical underpinnings of bioethics and the current major topics in the field of bioethics.
  • able to define and describe various principles of and approaches to bioethics and can then apply these principles to an enhanced understanding of medical practice, law and public policy.
  • able to understand and can demonstrate bioethical principles within a solid framework of decisionmaking in clinical, research, and policy settings.
Participants in the Library Proseminar will be able to:
  • understand the scope of the Bioethics Library’s book, journal, reprint, audiovisual, and special collections, and gain familiarity with resources and services offered via its Website;
  • search the library’s online bibliographic databases “ETHX on the Web” and “Genetics and Ethics” for bioethics materials by using its classification scheme as a tool to search for and organize the literature retrieved;
  • identify bioethics literature in the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s online databases PubMed and LOCATORplus by using the bioethics subset and other search strategies.
Disclosure of Financial Relationships with Any Commercial Interest

As a sponsor accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), it is the policy of Georgetown University Hospital (GUH) to require that everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest prior to the educational activity.

The ACCME considers relationship of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationship of a spouse or partner.

Faculty and planners who refuse to disclose relevant financial relationships will be disqualified from participating in the CME activity. For an individual with no relevant financial relationship(s), the participant must be informed that no conflicts of interest or financial relationship(s) exist.

Accreditation Statement: “This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Georgetown University Hospital and Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics. The Georgetown Unitversity Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

Designation Statement: The Georgetown University Hospital designates this educational activity for a maximum of 28.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent to their participation in the activity.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT: This continuing medical education activity is not supported by (nor in part by) grants.

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