Not Your Mother’s Ethics Course: Teaching Medical Ethics
Discover an innovative, interactive, and interdisciplinary approach to teaching the ethical and legal complexities of emergency medicine (EM) in the post-COVID 19 era. Hear about best practices and lessons learned for developing and teaching a course that meets the needs of Gen Z learners from experts in the fields of EM, law, ethics, education, research, and the US military. Create an action plan with concrete strategies for building a medical ethics curriculum that covers the moral complexities of healthcare today -- including moral injury, resource scarcity and triage.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a post-COVID-19 medical ethics course
- Discuss experiential teaching strategies to help learners grasp complex, current-day ethical and legal issues
- Develop an action plan for implementing an innovative medical ethics course into a medical education curriculum