The AAP Section on Bioethics and Committee on Bioethics have together responded to the need for bioethics education in pediatric training programs. We have developed a case-based modular curriculum designed to function as a how-to resource for residency and fellowship training programs. These instructor guides are aimed at assisting pediatric faculty in helping trainees develop basic competencies in bioethics.
Download the full curriculum including all 20 modules here:
The following individual modules review relevant resources and identify current debates important in the teaching of bioethics to medical trainees.
Title Page, Table of Contents, Acknowledgements and Introduction
Session 1. Ethics Education and Available Resources
Douglas J. Opel, MD, MPH, FAAP
Session 2. Autonomy, Beneficence, and the Rights of Parents and Children
Christy Cummings, MD, FAAP and Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA, FAAP
Session 3. Informed Consent and Assent in Clinical Pediatrics
Yoram Unguru, MD, MS, MA
Session 4. Minors as Decision Makers
Joel Frader, MD, MA, FAAP and Erin Flanagan, MD, FAAP
Session 5. Religious, Cultural, and Philosophical Objections to Care
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH, FAAP
Session 6. Parent-Patient-Pediatrician Relationship: Obligations of Veracity, Fidelity, and Confidentiality
Mary B Adam, MD, PhD, FAAP
Session 7. Ethical Issues in the Care of Adolescents
Margaret R. Moon MD, MPH, FAAP
Session 8. Availability and Use of Pediatric Enhancements
Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr, MD, MA, FAAP
Session 9. Infectious Diseases
Emily Obringer, MD, FAAP, and Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, FAAP
Session 10. Malpractice and Disclosure of Errors
Sadath Sayeed, MD, JD and Robert Truog, MD, FAAP
Session 11. Iatrogenesis: Exploring Ethical Obligations
Tomas Silber, MD, FAAP
Session 12. Critically Ill Newborns
Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA, FAAP, and Alaina K. Pyle, MD, FAAP
Session 13. Maternal-Fetal Conflict
Susan F. Townsend, MD, FAAP
Session 14. Genetic and Genomic Testing and Screening of Children
Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, FAAP
Session 15. Brain Death, Permanent Vegetative State, and Medical Futility
Asdis Finnsdottir Wagner, DO, Julio Quezada, MD, and John Lantos, MD, FAAP
Session 16. Training Issues for Residents and Students, Part I: Ethical and Professional Conflicts in the Context of Valued Learning Opportunities
Alex Okun, MD, FAAP, and Waseem Hafeez, MBBS, FAAP
Session 17. Training Issues for Residents and Students, Part II: Ethical and Professional Conflicts that may arise when Trainees Question what they are told to do
Waseem Hafeez, MBBS, FAAP, and Alex Okun, MD, FAAP
Session 18. Conflict of Interest
David Y. Harari, MD, MSB and Robert C. Macauley MD, FAAP, FAAHPM
Session 19. Post-trial Obligations in International Health Research Ethics
Seema K. Shah, JD
Session 20. Institutional Pediatric Ethics Committees
D. Micah Hester, PhD
Last Updated
08/24/2021
Source
American Academy of Pediatrics