Co-sponsored by the RESPECT Center. Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Lecturer: Guest professor Robert M. Arnold, MD
Objectives:
1. Describe three reasons for conflict with families regarding goals of care
2. Describe two phrases that one can use when in a conflictual situation
3. Describe a risk-reduction strategy when one cannot negotiate a solution to conflicts over the goals of care.
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. Food and beverages are not permitted in the ROC Auditorium. Food and drinks are permitted in the Methodist Petticrew Auditorium**
About the Lecturer:
Robert M. Arnold, MD, is a Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and in the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law. He completed his medical school training at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and residency at Rhode Island Hospital. He is clinically active in palliative care. Dr. Arnold has published on end-of-life care, hospice and palliative care, doctor-patient communication and ethics education. His current research interests are focused on educational interventions to improve communication in life-limiting illnesses and better understanding how ethical precepts are operationalized in clinical practice. He also is working with the UPMC Health System to develop system-wide, integrative palliative services throughout the health system.
The Research in Palliative and End-of-Life Communication and Training (RESPECT) Center is a collaborative, interdisciplinary scientific community of researchers and clinicians working to advance the science of communication in palliative and end-of-life care across the lifespan. For more information please go to http://www.iupui.edu/~irespect/
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Indiana University Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at achamnes@iuhealth.org or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.