- William Allen, (352) 273-5155
- Maria Bolanos, (352) 273-5155
- Course Materials
- Essay Question (11/17/2009)
- Course syllabus
- Syllabus (8/17/2009)
- Case Analysis Menu (11/17/2009)
- Glossary (11/17/2009)
- Case analysis example 1 (11/17/2009)
- Case analysis example 2 (11/17/2009)
- Advance Directives for Small Groups Nov 9-12, 2009
- FL Living Will (10/20/2009)
- FL Health Care Surrogate (10/20/2009)
- Terminal and End Stage Definitions (10/29/2009)
- Week 1--Introduction to Ethics, Professional Medical Ethics and Health Law
- Cultural Relativism (7/22/2009)
- Lecture Notes (8/21/2009)
- Week 2--Patient Physican Relationship and Conflict of Interests
- The Cost Conundrum (8/19/2009)
- Lecture Notes (8/24/2009)
- Week 2 lecture material not covered in class (8/31/2009)
- Week 3--Informed Consent and Truthful Disclosure
- Informed Consent in Clinical Medicine (9/1/2009)
- Informed Consent Article in MS Word (same article as the one above in pdf) (9/1/2009)
- Informed Consent Supplement (9/1/2009)
- Week 4--Medical Confidentiality and Disclosure to Non-patients
- Communicating Evidence for Participatory Decision Making (9/1/2009)
- COI Chart (9/11/2009)
- Addendum on Veracity and Waiver (9/11/2009)
- Medical Confidentiality, Notes (9/14/2009)
- Week 5--Decisional Capacity and Psychiatric Issues
- Assessment of Patient Competence (9/10/2009)
- Decisional Capacity (9/14/2009)
- Week 6: Allocation of Limited Resources
- Real Time Rationing (9/19/2009)
- Allocation (9/28/2009)
- Week 7: Medical Error and Patient Safety
- Medical Malpractice and the Chest Physician (9/25/2009)
- Claims, Errors and Compensation Payments (9/25/2009)
- Medical Errors Lecture Slides (9/30/2009)
- Week 8--Pediatric and Neonatal Issues
- Legal Exceptions to Parental Consent (10/7/2009)
- Neonatal and Pediatric Patients (lecture notes) (10/7/2009)
- Week 9--Refusal of Treatment by Adults with Decisional Capacity
- Matter of Dubreuil (10/5/2009)
- Lecture Notes (10/14/2009)
- Week 10--Palliative Sedation and Physician Assisted Suicide
- Dying and Decision Making (10/14/2009)
- Lecture Notes (10/23/2009)
- Week 11--Advance Directives
- FS 765 (10/23/2009)
- Schiavo Case (10/23/2009)
- Advance Directives Lecture Notes (10/27/2009)
- Terminal and End Stage Definitions (10/29/2009)
- Week 12--Maternal - Fetal Conflict
- Cocaine and Pregnancy (11/5/2009)
- Status of Pregnant Women and Fetuses (11/5/2009)
- Maternal - Fetal Conflict--Lecture Notes (11/10/2009)
- Week 13 New Technologies
- DNA Interactive (11/12/2009)
- James Watson news article (11/12/2009)
- GINA (11/12/2009)
- Lecture Notes (11/19/2009)
Ethical and Legal Issues in Medical Practice (BMS 6822)
This course introduces students to specific ethical and legal issues they will encounter in their clinical years. Students learn to identify ethical and legal problems, improve their communication skills with patients and colleagues, and apply ethical analysis in the resolution of concrete cases. The course is organized around both lecture and small-group dialogue sessions in which students are expected to support their conclusions with reasoned analysis.
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