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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - GMS6870
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2005-11-04
- Department: Medical Ethics and Humanities(internal medicine)
- College: MD
- Budget Account Number: 610605
- Contact Person: Lois LaCivita Nixon
- Phone: 9745300
- Email: lnixon@hsc.usf.edu
- Prefix: GMS
- Number: 6870
- Full Title: Medical Ethics and Humanities: Tools & Foundations
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Med Eth/Hum Tools-Foundations
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: Terminology, historical perspectives, ethical principles and dilemmas, and case studies. Examination of aspects of the human journey and various voices or perspectives thorough fiction, essays, history, art, poetry, theater, and film.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course has been required for all medical students for more than 20 years. MABMH students have the unique opportunity of becoming an integral part of an existing course that provides an introduction to the tools and foundations of medical ethics and
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? The course is required for all first year medical students, MS students, and Doctor in Physical Therapy students. The course is one of 5 core courses for MABHM students.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 2
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PHD in Humanities Discipline or MD with advanced ethics training.
- Objectives: Ethics:
Recognize the need to encourage patients to adopt healthful lifestyles.
Develop knowledge of issues that are applicable to clinical and real-life arenas, particularly to end of life issues.
Know the importance of involving the patient or family in therapeutic decision-making; the role and contribution of each team member in the care of the patient; the role of psychosocial factors in team interactions.
Recognize the importance of using interpersonal skills that enhance communication with the patient, the patient’s family, and other healthcare providers and consultants.
Be able to discuss the scope of issues included in "medical ethics".
Know base values of the medical profession; the essentials of malpractice cases.
Identify basic ethical principles that govern the practice of medicine.
Demonstrate key medical ethics concepts and nomenclature, e.g., informed consent, brain death, autonomy, beneficence, advance directives, etc.; knowledge of selected landmark ethics/legal cases.
Apply basic ethical principles to case analysis.
Distinguish between legal issues and ethical issues.
Demonstrate interpretive and observational skills in exploring topics in medicine and ethics via the humanities.
Develop an attitude of teamwork and respect toward all members of the health care team.
Respect patient’s informed choices, including the right to refuse treatment and patient autonomy.
Recognize the importance of involving the patient in decision making.
Understand the concepts professional responsibility.
Display attitudes and professional behaviors appropriate for clinical practice.
Medical Humanities:
Comprehension: understand meaning of narrative assignment and why it is included
Voice distinctions (objective and subjective/varied perspectives)
Observational skills and contributions of physician-writers
Analysis and Interpretation: determine application and use of narrative or story in medicine and the value of communication skills
Moral reasoning: gather data, identify problem, know legal parameters, form consensus
Social and personal complexities: recognize and tolerate ambiguities, nuances, complexities in self and others
In general students will be able to recognize the value of soft data or story for understanding and describing the full range of the human condition (strong, vulnerable, poor, afraid, articulate, bumbling, heterosexual, gay, light skinned, dark skinned, disabled, intersexual, powerless, arrogant, bullying, etc.).
- Learning Outcomes: Ethics:
To develop familiarity with the ethical dimensions of the physician's life, the value base of the medical profession, and key topics in medical ethics
To gain experience in analyzing clinical ethics problems.
Medical Humanities:
To understand how we got to where we are today in medicine and society
To recognize that the present is grounded in the past
To emphasize the importance of civil discourse, improved understandings, and tolerant attitudes toward others who are like us or not like us, including classmates
To understand and appreciate diversity and difference in ourselves and others
To value the importance of observation and listening skills for physicians
To remember that human beings, including ourselves, are stories and that much of medicine is about telling, listening, and interpreting stories.
To provide an introduction to stories told by physician-writers.
- Major Topics: Professionalism, Ethics Principles, Beginning-of-Life Issues, Aging Concerns, End-of-Life Issues, Epidemics, etc.
- Textbooks: Course pack developed by instructor on a early basis
On Doctoring, 3rd Edition
The Death of Ivan Illych
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.