Ethical Decision Making in Emergency Medicine
Assessment
e-Learning Module Completion
e-Learning Module Completion
By the end of the session learners should be able to: Understand and recognize core ethical principles (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice) as they relate to emergency medicine. Develop an approach to recognizing and responding to ethical issues in clinical practice using a decision-making framework. Describe broad ethical and legal principles underlying informed consent and capacity. Be familiar with CPSO policy on mandatory reporting. Participate in a group based End of Rotation Debriefing session. Have an opportunity to discuss and reflect on any difficult or stressful clinical scenarios while on your rotation.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Demonstrate ethical decision making.
- Protect information provided by or about patients, keeping it confidential, and divulge it only with the patient’s permission except when otherwise required by law.
- Demonstrate sensitivity to cultural issues (e.g., age, sex, culture, disability).
- Demonstrate honesty and integrity in patient care.
Activities
e-Learning Module
Tags
Basic Sciences
Ethics
CanMEDS Roles
Professional
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
General MCC Objectives
Law And Ethics
McMaster Professional Competency
Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgement
McMaster Program Competencies
3.3 Set learning and improvement goals
3.4 Identify and perform learning activities that address one’s gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes
5.6 Demonstrate a critical understanding of personal, professional and institutional power and privilege and utilize anti-oppressive practice to create patient experiences where marginalization and oppression are minimized.
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
6.3 Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems that support patient- and population-centred care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable
MeSH
Ethics, Medical [K01.752.566.479.171.132.750]
Health Care Costs [N05.300.375]
Health Resources [N03.349.340]
Resource Allocation [I01.261.750]