Bioethics and Humanities Newsletter PROGRAM IN BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES, CARVER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE July 2019 For a list of more upcoming events related to bioethics and humanities, click here. “While proponents welcome nudges as effective means to promote health without violating liberty, opponents criticize it for being illiberal and disrespectful.” To read more, click here: Engelen. Am J Bioeth; 2019) UPCOMING EVENTS QUOTATION OF THE MONTH UIHC ETHICS CONSULT SERVICE This service is a resource for patients, family members, or health professionals at UIHC who would like help addressing an ethical question or problem related to a patient’s care. Consults can be ordered by UIHC clinicians through EPIC. Consults can also be requested by calling (319) 356- 1616 and asking for the ethics consultant on call. For more information, click here. Welcome to the monthly Bioethics and Humanities Newsletter provided by the Program in Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Program in Bioethics and Humanities: Our Mission We are committed to helping healthcare professionals explore and understand the increasingly complex ethical questions that have been brought on by advances in medical technology and the health care system. We achieve this through education, research, and service within the Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care, University of Iowa, and the wider Iowa community. More Details About The Program PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT “THE DOCTOR IS IN” Pavane Gorrepati is a third year medical student at the UI CCOM. For her CCOM Humanities Distinction Track project, she wanted to create something that would have a meaningful impact not only for herself, but for other students as well. Ms. Gorrepati says, “During medical school, it becomes commonplace where a lot of our own individual interests are often sacrificed to take in the large breadth of knowledge that we are inundated with over four years. I have always loved to write, and I wanted to provide an outlet/ opportunity for other students to write for pleasure and to express that side of themselves.” Working with the editor-in-chief of The Daily Iowan, Gage Miskimen, and its managing editor, Katelyn Weisbrod, they created a column called “The Doctor Is In” that would be featured monthly for medical students to write on a topic of their choice that is medically related and that has relevance to the health of the undergraduate population. In addition to giving medical students who are interested in writing an outlet to publish
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Bioethics and Humanities Newsletter
PROGRAM IN BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES, CARVER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
July 2019
For a list of more upcoming
events related to bioethics and
humanities, click here.
“While proponents welcome nudges as effective means to promote health without violating liberty, opponents criticize it for being illiberal and disrespectful.” To read more, click here: Engelen. Am J Bioeth; 2019)
UPCOMING EVENTS
QUOTATION OF THE MONTH
UIHC ETHICS
CONSULT SERVICE
This service is a resource for patients, family members, or health professionals at UIHC who would like help addressing an ethical question or problem related to a patient’s care. Consults can be ordered by UIHC clinicians through EPIC. Consults can also be requested by calling (319) 356-1616 and asking for the ethics consultant on call. For more information, click here.
Welcome to the monthly Bioethics and Humanities Newsletter provided by the Program in Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Program in Bioethics and Humanities: Our Mission We are committed to helping healthcare professionals explore and understand the increasingly complex ethical questions that have been brought on by advances in medical technology and the health care system. We achieve this through education, research, and service within the Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care, University of Iowa, and the wider Iowa community. More Details About The Program
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT
“THE DOCTOR IS IN”
Pavane Gorrepati is a third year medical student at the UI CCOM. For her CCOM Humanities Distinction Track project, she wanted to create something that would have a meaningful impact not only for herself, but for other students as well. Ms. Gorrepati says, “During medical school, it becomes commonplace where a lot of our own individual interests are often sacrificed to take in the large breadth of knowledge that we are inundated with over four years. I have always loved to write, and I wanted to provide an outlet/opportunity for other students to write for pleasure and to express that side of themselves.” Working with the editor-in-chief of The Daily Iowan, Gage Miskimen, and its managing editor, Katelyn Weisbrod, they created a column called “The Doctor Is In” that would be featured monthly for medical students to write on a topic of their choice that is medically related and that has relevance to the health of the undergraduate population. In addition to giving medical students who are interested in writing an outlet to publish
We provide free consultation on ethical issues related to research design, tissue banking, genetic research results, informed consent, and working with vulnerable patient populations. In particular, we assist clinical investigators in identifying and addressing the ethical challenges that frequently arise when designing or conducting research with human subjects. These include ethical challenges in sampling design; randomized and placebo-controlled studies; participant recruitment and informed consent; return of individual-level research results; community engagement processes; and more. For more information, click here.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE SOCIETY
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to visit the John Martin Rare Book Room website. On this website you will find resources, digital exhibits, videotaped lectures, and news/highlights. For a list of the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society 2019-2020 Presentations and Events, click here.
pieces, this column turned out to also be a way to bridge the divide between the undergraduate and medical school campuses. Since January 2019, they have featured several medical students ranging from M1s-M4s, and they have writers scheduled well into 2020. Ms. Gorrepati assets, “The students at Carver have such incredible talent and it’s been great to be able to showcase that!”
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT
“THE DOCTOR IS IN”
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS
CALL FOR THEME ISSUE EDITORS
The AMA Journal of Ethics’ Call for Theme Issue Editors is now open. They invite medical students, residents, and fellows (MDs or DOs) in United States-based programs to apply to serve as theme issue editors for monthly issues to be published in 2021. Click here for more information on eligibility, duties, how to apply, and selection.