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ProBE Program Agenda

 

FRIDAY

 

Dinner on your own

6:45 PM

Registration and Introductions

7:00-9:00 PM

Session 1 - The Good Doctor

What are the characteristic qualities of a good doctor?  An exercise to elicit from the participants an ideal vision of the characteristics of a health professional.

 

SATURDAY

7:30-8:30 AM

Breakfast on your own or per contract with Hotel

8:30-10:45 AM

Session 2 - Infractions, Sanctions and Discipline

A recitation by each participant stating why his/her board required remedial education and direction in professional ethics.  What is the infraction?  Why the sanction?  What are the terms of the disciplinary action or consent order?  These accounts permit ProBE Program discussions to be individualized and “problem-based.”

10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM-Noon

Session 2 - Infractions, Sanctions and Discipline (continued)

Noon-1:00 PM

Group Luncheon - All Participants

1:30-2:30 PM

Session 3 - Clinician -Patient Relationship: Models

Evaluation of different ways of relating to patients and the moral constraints, and obligations entailed in each.  Individual styles and their consequences are examined in the context of specific cases.

2:30-4:00 PM

Session 4 - Clinician -Patient Relationship: Boundaries

Professional integrity considered in regard to interpersonal boundaries: sexual, financial, dual relationships, and fiduciary.  Warning signs of implicit and explicit boundary violation.  The clinician’s responsibility to avoid abuse of inherently unequal power.

4:00 PM

Break

4:30-6:00 PM

Session 5 - Accountability Within Professions

What do the health professions say they expect of their members?  Professional standards, oaths, principles, and codes examined as sources of rights, obligations, and accountability.  The strengths and limitations of peer review and whistle blowing are considered and analyzed.

6:00 PM

Dinner on your own

 

SUNDAY

7:30-8:30 AM

Breakfast per contract with Hotel (NJ)/Group Continental Breakfast (CO)

8:30-10:30 AM

Session 6 - Contemporary Mechanisms of Accountability

What is accountability in healthcare?  Societal responses to the failures of professional self-policing and the protection of the public’s health:  medical practice acts, licensing boards, national practitioner data banks and the multiple other mechanisms of social accountability for the healthcare professional.

10:30 AM

Break

11:00 AM-12:45 PM

Session 7 - Conceptual Resources for Applying Professional Ethics

Types of rules and moral theories. Practical concepts and distinctions that participants can apply to analysis of their own cases.  Review of the guidelines for the Final essay.

12:45-1:00 PM

Evaluation and Adjournment

Evaluation of the ProBE Program by participants.

Completion of The ProBE Program

The Final Essay

The participant is required to write a short essay (3-4 typewritten, double-spaced pages) which relates the substance of The ProBE Program to the particular violation that led to participation in ProBE. Specific course readings and/or class discussions should be identified and explored in terms of how each provided insight into the problem which brought the participant before the Board or other agency. The syllabus provides guidelines to assist in formulating this essay.  This essay will be completed and submitted to CPEP within two weeks of The ProBE Program session. Along with other elements of participation, the essay is required for completion of The ProBE Program. It will be forwarded to the licensing board (or other agency), together with commentary by the faculty, for review.

Assessment, Evaluation and Certification

The teaching faculty will prepare an assessment letter for each participant in evaluations of (1) the level and quality of participation in the work of the seminar; (2) the cogency of the final essay, and (3) an overall opinion of the participant's capacities for ethical reasoning and insight as demonstrated over the whole course of The ProBE Program.  This letter will be addressed to the referring Board (or other oversight agency or individual as appropriate) and a copy will be sent to the participant.  A certificate of successful completion of the program will only be sent to participants whose evaluation is positive (unconditional or conditional pass).

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