Bioethics Flashcards
Declaration of geneva
WMA ethics unit:
•excerside independent professional judgement
•maintain highest standards of profesional conduct
•deal honestly with patients and colleagues
•report to authorities those physicians who paractice unethically, incompetently, or engage in fraud or deception
•certifiy only that which he/she has personally verified
•give patients complete loyalty and all scietific resourses available
Cognitive Competencies
- Knowledge
- Information Management
- application of information to real life situations
- use of tacit knowledge and personal experience
- recognition of gaps in one’s knowledge
- self directed acquisitoin of new knowledge through questions and other means
- awareness of, and ability to make adjustments for, biases that affect knowledge
Integrative competencies
- application of scientific, clinical, and ethical information
- use of logic and reasoning strategies
- linking of interdisciplinary adn clinical knowledge
- managing uncertainty
- critical reflection about fallacies
Relational Competencies
- communication skills
- handling conflict
- teamwork
- teaching others
Moral Competencies
- attentiveness
- curiosity
- awareness of emotion
- recognition of, and response to, their own biases
- readiness to acknowledge and correct others
Types of competencies:
cognitive, integrative, relational, moral
Informatics
science of processing data for strage and tretieval
Distance Medicine
provision of healthcare services, clinical information, and/or education of distance and time using ICT
ICT
information communication technology
Female risk of alcohol abuse
> 7 drinks per week or 3 per occasion
Male risk of alcohol abuse
> 14 drinks per week or 4 drinks per occasion
Med student alcohol statistics
10% >20 drinks/week during med school 25% abusing alcohol when they start 32% by graduation reporting on impairment usually 7 yrs after graduation avg age on referral 44
Fallacies
Tradition, popularity, authority, silence, attack
More to medcial school than grades
Gregory lopez–>shift in thinking, not about tests, about future pts, interpersonal skills, professionalism and Mel rosenfeld–>don’t know what future will be like, critical thinking
Doc i need a smart pill
dan larriviere–>up to the doctor, patient-physician relationship
imparied resident
erin egan–>duty to report, threat to pt care?, look for advice
dewitt c baldwin–>whats going on?, depression, treatment
Ethics
deals with how we outh to behave. means of examining and understanding what is right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral. seeks to define and understand morality
Morality
conforming to accepted rules and standards guiding human behavior. reflects what given society defines and morally acceptable
Law
enacted or customary rule enjoining or prohibiting certain actions. integrated with but distinct from morality and ethics. typically enforce moral values of their society
PHILOSOPHY
use of reason adn argument ins seeking truth and knowledge or reality, especially causes and nature of things
cultural competency
requires drs to deliever idividualized pt centered care
culturally competen students and drs must
reflect on and recognise own cultural beliefs, ask pts about their beliefs about health and disease, develop communication skills to improve pt compliance and outcomes, acknowledge adn respond to health disparities
Principalism
using bioethics principles to analyse and negotiate dilemmas
Principles
- Respect for persons
- beneficence
- nonmaleficence
- utility
- justice