TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown, Virginia A
AU  - DeRenzo, Evan G
AU  - Lynch, John J
AU  - Mokwunye, Nneka O
TI  - Training in clinical ethics: launching the clinical ethics immersion course at the Center for Ethics at the Washington Hospital Center
SN  - 1046-7890
KW  - *Ethics, Clinical/ed [Education]
KW  - *Health Personnel/ed [Education]
KW  - *Inservice Training/mt [Methods]
KW  - *Teaching/mt [Methods]
KW  - Adult
KW  - Curriculum
KW  - District of Columbia
KW  - Ethics Committees, Clinical
KW  - Ethics Consultation
KW  - Female
KW  - Hospitals, General
KW  - Hospitals, Private
KW  - Humans
KW  - Inservice Training/og [Organization & Administration]
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Negotiating
KW  - Role Playing
KW  - Teaching/og [Organization & Administration]
KW  - Videotape Recording
KW  - MedStar Washington Hospital Center
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Journal Article
N1  - Available online through MWHC library: 2008 only
N2  - In May 2011, the clinical ethics group of the Center for Ethics at Washington Hospital Center launched a 40-hour, three and one-half day Clinical Ethics Immersion Course. Created to address gaps in training in the practice of clinical ethics, the course is for those who now practice clinical ethics and for those who teach bioethics but who do not, or who rarely, have the opportunity to be in a clinical setting. "Immersion" refers to a high-intensity clinical ethics experience in a busy, urban, acute care hospital. During the Immersion Course, participants join clinical ethicists on working rounds in intensive care units and trauma service. Participants engage in a videotaped role-play conversation with an actor. Each simulated session reflects a practical, realistic clinical ethics case consultation scenario. Participants also review patients' charts, and have small group discussions on selected clinical ethics topics. As ethics consultation requests come into the center, Immersion Course participants accompany clinical ethicists on consultations. Specific to this pilot, because participants' evaluations and course faculty impressions were positive, the Center for Ethics will conduct the course twice each year. We look forward to improving the pilot and establishing the Immersion Course as one step towards addressing the gap in training opportunities in clinical ethics
ER  -