Bioethics and Humanities Newsletter

PROGRAM IN BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES, CARVER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

July 2019

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“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

CLINICAL RESEARCH

ETHICS SERVICE

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.

BIOETHICS LITERATURE

Agich GJ. Knowing one's way around: The challenge of identifying and overseeing innovations in patient care.

Am J Bioeth. 2019 Jun; 19: 1-3.

Bhatia-Lin A, Boon-Dooley A, Roberts MK, et al. Ethical and regulatory considerations for using social media

platforms to locate and track research participants. Am J Bioeth. 2019 Jun; 19: 47-61.

DeJong C, Steinbrook R. Shining a light on industry payments to health care professionals who are not

physicians. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Jun 10. [Epub ahead of print]

Earl J. Innovative practice, clinical research, and the ethical advancement of medicine. Am J Bioeth. 2019 Jun; 19:

7-18.

Engelen B. Ethical criteria for health-promoting nudges: A case-by-case analysis. Am J Bioeth. 2019 May; 19: 48-

59.

Forte DN, Kawai F, Cohen C. A bioethical framework to guide the decision-making process in the care of

seriously ill patients. BMC Med Ethics. 2018 Aug 20; 19: 78.

Herrera LN, Khodadadi R, Schmit E, et al. Which student characteristics are most important in determining

clinical honors in clerkships? A teaching ward attending perspective. Acad Med. 2019 Jun 11. [Epub ahead of

print]

Kneebone R. Dissecting the consultation. Lancet. 2019 May 4; 393: 1795.

Parker JC. The clinical ethics consultant: What role is there for religious beliefs? HEC Forum; 2019: 31: 85-89.

Persson I, Savulescu J. The evolution of moral progress and biomedical moral enhancement. Bioethics. 2019

May 20. [Epub ahead of print]

Rand LZ, Berger Z. Disentangling evidence and preference in patient-clinician concordance discussions. AMA J

Ethics. 2019; 21: 505-512.

Reingold RB, Gostin LO. State abortion restrictions and the new supreme court: Women's access to

reproductive health services. JAMA. 2019 Jun 5. [Epub ahead of print]

Schofield G, Brangan E, Dittborn M, et al. Real-world ethics in palliative care: Protocol for a systematic review

of the ethical challenges reported by specialist palliative care practitioners in their clinical practice. BMJ Open.

2019 May 27; 9: e028480.

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The worst patients in the world. The Atlantic, July 2019.

1st AIDS ward ‘5B’ fought to give patients compassionate care, dignified deaths. NPR, June 26, 2019.

Love and other disabilities. Tablet Magazine, June 22, 2019.

Medical schools are starting to diversify. But they’re learning hard lessons along the way. STAT News, June

17, 2019.

Legalizing medical cannabis reduces opioid overdose deaths? Not so fast, new study says. STAT News, June

10, 2019.

Serious illness care and the opioid epidemic: Reflections on a NASEM workshop. Health Affairs Blog, June 7,

2019.

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