Teaching rounds and the experience of death as a medical ethicist

As everybody knows, advances in medicine and medical technology have brought enormous benefits to, and created vexing choices for, us all – choices that can, and occasionally do, test the very limits of thinking itself. As everyone also knows, we live in the age of consultants, i.e., of professional experts who are ready, willing, and able to give us advice on any and every conceivable question. One such consultant is the medical ethics consultant, or the medical ethicist who consults.Medical ethics consultants involve themselves in just about every aspect of health care decision making. They help legislators and judges determine law, hospitals formulate policies, medical schools develop curricula, etc. In addition to educating physicians, nurses, and lawyers, amongst others, including medical, nursing, and law students, they participate in clinical decision making at the bedside.

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324 PATIENT WORKLOAD AND QUALITY OF TEACHING ROUNDS.

Journal of Investigative Medicine ◽

10.2310/6650.2005.x0008.323 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. S314.2-S314

Author(s):

M. R. Gilliam ◽

A. J. Murray ◽

C. A. Feddock ◽

J. F. Wilson ◽

T. S. Caudill

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Teaching ◽

Teaching Rounds

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Rejuvenating experienced teachers through Quality Teaching Rounds professional development

Journal of Educational Change ◽

10.1007/s10833-020-09386-z ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Gore ◽

Bernadette Rickards

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Experienced Teachers ◽

Quality Teaching ◽

Teaching Rounds

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Teaching Psychological Medicine on Hospital Rounds: A Liaison Experiment

The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine ◽

10.2190/w0he-1yll-ye3d-ejxc ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 325-334 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ralph N. Zabarenko ◽

Lucy M. Zabarenko

Keyword(s):

Hospital Setting ◽

Time Span ◽

Liaison Psychiatry ◽

Hospital Work ◽

Psychological Medicine ◽

Long Time ◽

Teaching Rounds

An unusual version of liaison psychiatry is described in which the object of the liaison is the practicing physician in the hospital setting. Hospital work rounds were used as teaching rounds at frequent intervals over a relatively long time span. The paper demonstrates the usefulness and feasibility of such a project. The processes and principles of teaching psychological medicine in this way are described and exemplified.

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