Relevance of Clinical Ethics in Medical Practice
Laws, medical documentation standards and professional guidelines are constantly changing. The practice of good clinical medicine requires knowledge of medical and ethical issues. Health care providers face multiple ethical issues on a daily basis. Clinicians must analyze different factors like patient rights, quality of life, confidentiality, and proper allocation of resources while evaluating a case and formulating a care plan.
The physician assistant (PA) program I attended to was a 2-year program and covered vast amounts of material in a short period of time. Although I received clinical ethics training during the first year of the program, the material covered was limited. I did not completely …show more content…
The lack of clinical ethics training at an undergraduate level forces health care providers to learn about ethical issues on the job. For example, “…a national US survey in children’s hospitals reported that on-the-job training for clinical ethicists was the most frequent form, and that only about a third endorsed a more formal training such as an intensive bioethics minicourse, mentoring by an experienced ethicist, or a relevant master degree” (Johnson, Siegler, & Winslade, 2010 p.36).
The medical and clinical ethics fields overlap at multiple levels. It is important to recognize that “A pragmatic approach focusing on ethical problem solving, ethical mediation, consensus building and communication skills, would offer students important tools for managing stressful clinical situations” (Berger, 2014 p.397). Therefore, PA programs should strengthen clinical ethics training at an undergraduate level.
I am taking this course because I am hoping to further develop skills to better analyze patients’ cases and expand my knowledge on ethical issues. At the end of this course, I would like to be able to provide better quality of care while applying the main principles encompassing clinical ethics, beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for autonomy and justice. (Johnson, Siegler, & Winslade
Laws, medical documentation standards and professional guidelines are constantly changing. The practice of good clinical medicine requires knowledge of medical and ethical issues. Health care providers face multiple ethical issues on a daily basis. Clinicians must analyze different factors like patient rights, quality of life, confidentiality, and proper allocation of resources while evaluating a case and formulating a care plan.
The physician assistant (PA) program I attended to was a 2-year program and covered vast amounts of material in a short period of time. Although I received clinical ethics training during the first year of the program, the material covered was limited. I did not completely …show more content…
The lack of clinical ethics training at an undergraduate level forces health care providers to learn about ethical issues on the job. For example, “…a national US survey in children’s hospitals reported that on-the-job training for clinical ethicists was the most frequent form, and that only about a third endorsed a more formal training such as an intensive bioethics minicourse, mentoring by an experienced ethicist, or a relevant master degree” (Johnson, Siegler, & Winslade, 2010 p.36).
The medical and clinical ethics fields overlap at multiple levels. It is important to recognize that “A pragmatic approach focusing on ethical problem solving, ethical mediation, consensus building and communication skills, would offer students important tools for managing stressful clinical situations” (Berger, 2014 p.397). Therefore, PA programs should strengthen clinical ethics training at an undergraduate level.
I am taking this course because I am hoping to further develop skills to better analyze patients’ cases and expand my knowledge on ethical issues. At the end of this course, I would like to be able to provide better quality of care while applying the main principles encompassing clinical ethics, beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for autonomy and justice. (Johnson, Siegler, & Winslade