AHEC Scholars Learn about Tricky Situations

On Saturday, April 8, the AHEC scholars came to NEOMED to learn more about Interprofessional Education: Medical Ethics and Humanities.

Our amazing students from the College of Graduate Studies in Medical Ethics and Humanities and the College of Medicine led the discussion.

Olivia Anderson in the College of Graduate Studies, Kelsey Johnson Dual-Enrolled M4, Leah McCollum M4, and Abigail Beaver, M3, students informed the scholars of the taxonomy of “Medical Ethics,” the Ethics “Tool Kit” and Core Ethical principles before facilitating three different cases.

Cases including, “Speaking for Our Father” highlighting autonomy, “You Don’t Help Your Patients by Crying”, and “Do or Don’t I?” about social media requests from patients, guided the scholars to use the framework for medical ethics and humanities to list the pros and cons to these scenarios.

-- Submitted by Patricia Thornborough, pthornborough@neomed.edu.