Ethics in Healthcare 2024: A One-Day Conference for Learning, Dialogue, and Inter-Professional Exchange
May 31, 2024 | Iowa City, Iowa
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
SESSION ONE- Speaker: Aaron Kunz, DO, MA, MME
Title: Four Components of a Moral Event: a Primer on Normative Ethics
Objectives:
- Describe four components of a moral event: agent, act, circumstance, outcome.
- Compare four ethical approaches (virtues, principles, narratives, consequences) related to these four components.
- Develop a pragmatic method for identifying and clarifying ethical problems.
SESSION TWO- Speaker: Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD
Title: Real-world Ethics for Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
Objectives:
- Describe ethical issues that can arise when artificial intelligence (AI) is used in health care settings.
- Compare and contrast different ways 'fairness' can be defined when assessing biases in AI.
- Argue that AI-based technologies shape who we are and how we think (and therefore are not mere 'tools').
SESSION THREE- Speaker: Graeme Pitcher, MBBCh
Title: My injured adolescent patient has a positive toxicology screen- What should I do about that? Balancing Health, Privacy, and the Public Good
Objectives:
- Explore the clinical and ethical justification of screening for substance use in injured adolescents.
- Examine the institutional response to a positive test.
- Discuss the ethics of the broader legal and societal implications of adolescent substance use.
SESSION FOUR- Speaker: Lisa Anderson-Shaw, DrPH, MA, MSN (APRN-C, HEC-C)
Title: Moral Resilience of Healthcare Professionals
Objectives:
- Define moral distress, despair, and resilience.
- Identify why healthcare providers are at great risk for feeling sad, helpless, burned out, guilt and desperation.
- Discuss how work and personal environments impact our total self.
- Examine healthy ways of building moral resilience.