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Legislative News Alert!

The Utah Advance Health Care Directive Act went into effect 1/1/08.  Instructions and Form, electronic Instructions and Form, and a Provider Guide to the new law, and various presentations on the law are available at  www.aging.utah.edu/directives

Medical Ethics and Humanities Division

Mission Statement

The Division is sponsored by the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.  

The Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities' mission is to prepare physicians to provide respectful, humane patient care, to address current ethical problems in health care through research and discussion and to engage with providers, patients, and families to resolve their ethical conflicts.  We use relevant medicine, law, moral reasoning, literature, drama, and art to inform physicians about ethical issues and prepare them to empathize and communicate compassionately.

Congratulations to Katherine Poruk as the recipient of the 2012 Best Medical Ethics Essay Award!

Katherine Poruk  

Katherine Poruk  has earned this year's award for her essay, "Too Old for an Organ: The Ethical Dilemma of Age in Cardiac Transplantation."  Katherine has agreed to share an abridged version of her reflective essay in our Fall Medical Ethics and Humanities Newsletter.

The award for the Best Medical Ethics Essay is received by a student in the Medical Ethics Course for Senior Medical Students, a required course taught each Spring by the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities.

Featured Publication

The Patient as Victim and Vector
Ethics and Infectious Disease
by:
Margaret P. Battin
Leslie P. Francis
Jay A. Jacobson
Charles B. Smith

   The Patient

Featured Events

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 Upcoming Events:

Evening Ethics Discussion:

 
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 5:30-7:00pm

 Research Administration Building, 1st floor Large Conference Room

Topic of Discussion: "A New Performance by Students: Progeny" 

Facilitated by Gretchen Case, PhD

Location:  Research Administration Building, 1st floor large conference room

There is no background reading for this session.


 

Physicians Literature and Medicine Discussions:

The Next Literature and Medicine Discussion will be: 

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 6:00 pm-8:30 pm

Literature: Tangles by Sarah Leavitt  Facilitator: Gretchen Case, PhD

Location: LDSH Amicus Boardroom (Please NOTE! Room change due to construction at LSDH.)

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Click here for a complete listing of the 2012 Physician Literature and Medicine Readings 
Slide presentation from October 2009 Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, by Leslie Francis, PhD, JD:  "Interoperable Electronic Health Records, the American Re-Investment and Recovery Act, and Patient Privacy"