Innovative Holistic Teaching in a Canadian Neonatal Perinatal Residency Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20334005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thierry Daboval (0000-0002-5321-6193), Emanuela Ferretti (0000-0001-7064-1311), Gregory P Moore (0000-0003-2430-7835) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 21-25 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/hast.384 |
| PMID | 25412973 |
| OpenAlex | W2008965683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
Ethically complex and challenging cases confront health care professionals in neonatal‐perinatal medicine more often than in most other subspecialties in medicine. Neonatologists regularly encounter situations where crucial life‐or‐death decisions need to be made in the best interest of an infant and its family. While physicians and their professional societies seem to dictate this best interest standard by weighing the risk of mortality and morbidities, parents may have other perspectives to be considered . Our review of programs for teaching ethics in Canadian neonatal‐perinatal residency programs has revealed that 90 percent of them incorporated formal and informal medical ethics education, meeting the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada requirements, but that the teaching strategies, topics covered, and time devoted to teaching ethics are not standardized. Lectures and case presentations—the pedagogic strategy used by most programs—are not ideal for teaching communication skills. We propose, therefore, a holistic approach to teaching and training that imparts (1) a traditional understanding of ethical theory and reasoning, (2) advanced skills in communication and counseling, and (3) a disposition to engage in self‐reflection and to be aware of the emotional and spiritual dimensions of neonatal‐perinatal medicine
Communication skills · Health care · Medical education · Medical ethics · Perinatal medicine · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in medical practice · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |