GP Autumn School: Medical Ethics II - Teaching Medical Ethics in the Real World (GP-LEEDS11OCT19A)

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SubjectzLegal and ethical issues
DescriptionThe morning session is designed to highlight the moral and ethical duties of today’s GP, how to recognise ethical issues and how to make consistent moral judgements. In turn, and how to teach the trainee - firstly to recognise ethical issues and, secondly how to manage them in a systematic and fair manner. The afternoon session focusses on the problems of scarce health resources, and how to recognise and manage the potential conflict that can occur between individual patient autonomy and health needs of the general population.
VenueThorpe Park Hotel and Spa, Leeds  View details
Date & timeFriday 11 October 2019, 08:45 to 17:00
LecturersStuart Calder & Nicki Williams  View details
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Course styleWorkshop
CateringRefreshments and Lunch
CPD points0.000
CostNo charge
Aims

The Duties of a Doctor

  • To consider the duties of the doctor from a historical standpoint, and to examine the changes in attitude that have occurred over the years.
  • To examine the current legal and moral duties of today’s doctors.
  • To examine some specific examples when the duty of the doctor conflicts with the autonomy of the patient.
  • To examine the moral responsibility of the doctor when treating minors.
  • To examine the duties of a doctor when treating the ‘hopelessly ill’.
  • To discuss the duty of a doctor to protect patients from ‘unfit’ or poorly-performing doctors.

 

Scarce Health Resources, Rationing and Justice in Health Care

  • To consider the role of the doctor in today’s climate of limited health resources and rationing.
  • To discuss the conflict that occurs between the duty of the doctor and the perceived rights of the patient.
  • To ask the essential questions concerning rationing.
  • To see how Justice can be maintained in the light of rationing.
  • To look at the various current approaches to rationing.
  • To examine specific examples from other countries.
  • To undertake a practical exercise in rationing care with real examples.
Objectives

After the morning session

  • The learners will understand the place of Hippocratic Oath in the past and appreciate its evolution over the centuries.
  • The learners will have a clear understanding of the doctor's legal duties, and an appreciation of his/her own moral duties.
  • The learners will be able to relate his/her duties in the context of minors, the "hopelessly ill", and those with diminished responsibility, while appreciating the value of the autonomy of the patient.
  • The learners will have a clear idea of the importance of maintaining patient autonomy, while not losing sight of beneficence, when performing her/his duties.

 

After the afternoon session

  • The learners will appreciate the moral and ethical problems created by scarce health resources, and will have worked out some principles for approaching situations, which involve rationing.
  • They will understand the principles involved in rationing systems set up in certain other countries.
  • They will specifically understand the importance of the duties of the doctor, and justice in making decisions concerning the rationing of health care.