Brain Death and Organ Donation
Activity
PC Session
PC Session
At the end of this session, students will be able to: Describe their role and responsibility as physicians with respect to potential organ donors; Describe how the Trillium Gift of Life program supports organ donation; Better manage sensitive communications about brain death and organ donation drawing on SPIKES guidelines; Recognize that circumstances, past experiences, and/or values may render discussions of brain death and organ donation difficult for families and health care professionals.
Curriculum Block
Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 4
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
General Objectives
- Summarize the ethical, legal obligations and duty of care that physicians have for patients, colleagues and, communities, and the tensions that may arise from these responsibilities.
- Demonstrate how to develop with patients, families, and other professionals a common understanding on issues and a shared plan of care, as defined by the Kalamazoo Consensus Statements. (CanMEDS 2015).
- Describe the medical and ethical principles of organ transplantation and living and deceased donation.
Assessments
PC Final Student Assessment
Tags
AFMC Entrustable Professional Activities
9. Communicate in difficult situations
Curriculum Block
Part 5
Professional Competencies IF
Week 4
Curriculum Week
IF
Week 4
MCC Presentations
Head Trauma / Brain Death / Transplant Donations
McMaster Professional Competency
Effective Communication
Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgement
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
1.5 Develop and carry out patient management plans
1.7 Counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision-making
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds
4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics
4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses
5.2 Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others
5.4 Demonstrate respect for patient confidentiality, privacy and autonomy
5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations
5.8 Balance personal values and beliefs with professional and societal ethics
7.2 Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served
8.5 Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by utilizing appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty
MeSH
Brain Death [C10.228.140.151]
Tissue and Organ Procurement [N02.421.911]
Professional Competency
Yes
