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Conscientious Practice in Healthcare: Integrating Personal and Professional Ethical Values
Overview
Purpose
Mary Greeley Medical Center Grand Rounds is a multi-disciplinary clinical activity that maintains, develops, or increases the knowledge, skills, professional performance, and relationships a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession.
Target Audience
Physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, medical students (rotating), non-medical students (rotating), and healthcare administrators.
Learning Objectives
- Describe conscientious practice as a part of ethics and a matter of integrity.
- Identify ways to respond conscientiously to morally controversial practices in healthcare.
- Discuss how accommodating conscientious practice can balance the professional’s right of conscience and the patient’s right to access desired services.
Speaker
Lauris C. Kaldjian, MD, MDiv, PhD
Dr. Kaldjian is Director of the Program in Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where he is also a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and holds the Richard M. Caplan Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities.
He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan, an M.Div. and PhD in Christian ethics from Yale University, and completed his residency and fellowship training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Yale. He has been at the University of Iowa since 2000.
His research interests have been directed toward end-of-life decision making, goals of care, disclosure of medical errors, the role of foundational beliefs and values in medical ethics, practical wisdom in healthcare, conscientious practice, and ethics education.
Beyond the University, Dr. Kaldjian has served on the United Network for Organ Sharing ethics committees, the Society of General Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the Iowa Medical Society. He also served as a Deputy Editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine and is on the editorial board of Communication & Medicine.
Dr. Kaldjian's contributions to the medical profession have been recognized by a Merit Award from the Iowa Medical Society (2016) and a Laureate Award from the Iowa Chapter of the American College of Physicians (2017).
Location
CE Credits
Accreditation Statements
- DO: Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences (DMU) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. DMU designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 AOA Category 2-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
EDUCATIONAL GRANTS
No ineligible company provided financial support for this continuing education activity.
DISCLOSURES
The speaker(s) will disclose if any pharmaceuticals, medical procedures, or devices discussed are investigational or unapproved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The activity director is responsible for determining educational content and selecting speakers.
Relevant to the content of this educational activity, the following individual(s) have no conflict(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
- Lauris C. Kaldjian, MD, MDiv, PhD - Speaker
CME Committee
- No Mary Greeley Medical Center CME Committee member who planned this activity has any financial relationship to disclose relating to the content.
Gifts to the Mary Greeley Medical Center Foundation from Mary Greeley Medical Center, McFarland Clinic, and Availa Bank support this program. The content and selection of speaker(s) are the responsibility of the Mary Greeley Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education Committee, not the sponsors of this program.
DISCLAIMER
The information provided in this activity is for continuing education purposes only. It is not a substitute for a healthcare provider's independent medical judgment regarding diagnostic and treatment options for a specific patient's medical condition.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AOA Category 2A