About this website
Medical Ethics Made Accessible offers a medical ethics curriculum that is fun, interactive, and educational by utilizing content that has come up in the lay press, is relatable, and easy to understand. The web-based curriculum varies in content (videos, podcasts, and articles) sourced from a variety of institutions and types of providers (internists, nurses, medical students, psychiatrists).
Medical Ethics Made Accessible is currently being paired with quarterly ethics conferences offered to medical students and residents to help fulfill LME and ACGME requirements on Ethics and Professionalism. However, it can be helpful to anyone interested in clinical ethics in general.
Comments regarding additional content or useful topics are always welcome. Please get in touch via the web form below.
Joyeeta G Dastidar, MD
➤ LOCATION
New York Presbyterian-Columbia
Milstein Hospital Building 8SK 8004
177 Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10032
☎ CONTACT
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Some Key Areas of Education
BIOETHICS BASICS
Introduction to the principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
right to liVe/die
How do we protect our patients’ right to maintain their lives as they see appropriate? What do we do when there is a clash between patients or families and their providers in this regard? How do we ensure patients are allowed to die in the manner they want?
CAPACITY and CONSENT
How do we determine whether a patient is capable of making a medical decision for themselves, and how to ensure patients are making the most informed decision they can.
end-of-life dilemmas
The advent of newer technologies ranging from feeding tubes to ventilators to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) have really pushed our ability to maintain life to the limit. How do we determine how far is permissible and feasible?
TREATMENT WITHOUT CONSENT/OVER OBJECTION
How do we manage cases where a patient lacks capacity to consent to recommended care? Are there cases where one might administer treatment over a patient’s objection?
DILEMMAS SPECIFIC to MEDICAL STUDENTS
Due to the unique position of medical students (decreased authority, still in training), there are dilemmas that come up specific to those vulnerabilities. How does a medical student navigate the ethical dilemmas that come up unique to their situation?
“Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards. ”
About the content editor
Dr. Dastidar is a Hospitalist and a member of the Ethics Consult team and the Ethics Committee at New York Presbyterian-Columbia. She also enjoys writing. Her interests in Narrative Medicine and Clinical Ethics were merged in two of her book chapters: “Ableist Biases: A Tale of Three Lives,” published in Narrating Patienthood (winner of the 2019 NCA Distinguished Edited Scholarly Book Award) and The Dual Role of the Facilitator as Emotional Support and Reproductive Travel Broker in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel: Psychological Perspectives and a Call for the Ethical Separation of Services. She has also published several articles, including “Beyond Translating Ethical Norms Into Practice - Integrating Implementation and Assessment Mindsets” as well as “A Real-World Ethical Analysis of Contingency Measures Enacted for Crisis Standards of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in recent issues of The American Journal of Bioethics and “When Imaging Data Contradict Patient Self-report, How Should Clinicians Proceed?” in the special issue on Illness, Visibility and Measurability in the AMA Journal of Ethics.
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