Fairbanks Conference for Clinical Ethics

The 5th biennial Fairbanks Conference for Clinical Ethics. The Keynote The Keynote will be focused on Rural Healthcare Ethics. The conference will also feature an abstract session, breakout sessions, and reviewing complex ethics consult cases.

For more information about the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit www.fairbankscenter.org

AM and PM Workshops:

1. Religious Exemptions for the COVID-19 Vaccine: Personal Convictions vs Public Safety

This breakout session will present results of a national study of healthcare chaplains who formally evaluated co-worker’s religious exemption requests for the COVID-19 vaccine.  As religious content experts chaplains found meaning in this role even as they experienced considerable moral, theological, and personal distress. Causes of distress included the use/misuse of religion for political ends, the process of judging “sincerity of belief,” unfairness/bias toward members of specific religious traditions, and conflict between the chaplain’s own ethical stance about COVID vaccination in the workplace and that of the applicants under consideration.
Workshop attendees will be invited to consider their own stances on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in the workplace as well as reflect on the complex ethical questions raised by employees seeking religious accommodations of any sort.

2. Advance Care Planning Conversations with Patients: How to Elicit Patient’s Values & Preferences

There are many barriers to helping a person to have Advance Care Planning Conversations.  Join this workshop to help you think about moving the conversation from completing Advance Directives to having Advance Care Planning Conversations.  We will look at questions to ask to help a patient think about their values and preferences, help them select a Health Care Representative, and assist them in having these difficult conversations with their loved ones.

3. Clinical Organizational Ethics

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to identify the necessary components for a successful clinical organizational ethics program.  At the conclusion of the workshop, attendees should be able to differentiate clinical organizational ethics from clinical ethics.  Attendees will learn how a successful clinical organizational ethics program can create a positive systematic change, improve patient care, and alleviate team member’s moral distress.

4. How to Write an Ethics Consult Note

In this workshop, attendees will discuss the unique and focused goals of ethics consultation and their value to healthcare delivery.  Participants will participate in a discussion of important aspects of ethics consultation documentation, then review a hypothetical ethics consultation and practice note writing for said case.

5. Pediatric Ethics

Description to come soon

6. Clinical Ethics 101

This session will provide a brief overview of clinical ethics and discuss a general approach for addressing ethical dilemmas arising in healthcare. Attendees will learn the general framework and process of an ethics consultation, including four central components of a quality ethics consultation: clarifying the ethical issue(s) prompting the consult; gathering the relevant information; ethically analyzing the gathered information; and providing sound ethical recommendations. Attendees will participate in applying this general approach to a hypothetical ethics consult case.

1. Recognize at least 3 ethically challenging situations in patient care
2. Extend and apply foundations of ethics knowledge
3. Describe a framework for ethical decision-making

Registration open now! 

Physicians (MD, DO): $125

Other Healthcare Providers/Non-Healthcare Professionals : $100

Students: $55

Speakers: $35

Please register no later than January 27, 2023.

IU Health

Nurses

Indiana University Health is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, has been approved by the Indiana Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist and Mental Health Counselor Board to provide Category I Continuing Education programs for: LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC. Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, has been approved by the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, the Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Board to provide Category I Continuing Education for Psychology.

Participants can earn up to 6.25 contact hours for time in attendance and submission of an evaluation.

For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations please contact the IUSM CME office at 317-274-0104 or [email protected] One week advance notice will allow us to provide seamless access. Please ensure to specify the accommodations you need in order to participate.

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