PROFESSIONAL/PROBLEM-BASED ETHICS         

The ProBE Program is the original educational intervention in ethics for all healthcare professionals under discipline by their licensing boards or other oversight agencies.  Past participants have included primarily physicians, but we also have served practitioners from dentistry, nursing, podiatry and chiropractic as well as physician assistants.  We provide education for ethics violations or unprofessional conduct secondary to boundary violations in the practice of healthcare, including, but not limited to, misrepresentation, financial irregularities, disruptive behavior, sexual misconduct and substance abuse. 

ProBE faculty members are experienced medical educators whose work in ethics is clinically based and firmly grounded in the social and legal context of the health professions. By using team-taught interventions, we are able to provide insights from diverse perspectives and a range of expertise including:

• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Philosophy
• Clinical ethics
• Health law
• Public health
• Health policy and management
• Social and ethical theory

Our approach also allows for introspection and the sharing of coping strategies as well as traditional didactic presentations, seminar discussion and case study.

Since the content of every session is exclusively tailored to the professional ethic situations brought to the fore by that Program's participants, each offering of the ProBE Program is unique in substance. At the same time, the Program maintains a broad conceptual framework within which specific problems are explored and developed. The reading assignments and exercises are focused on accountability in healthcare ethics placed in the context of contemporary cultural and legal aspects of the healthcare professions.

The ProBE Program is offered a minimum of six times each year. Locations alternate between Newark, New Jersey, and Denver, Colorado. 

  Newark schedule:  January, May and September. The first session is held on a Friday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.  The Program continues with a full day of sessions on Saturday and concludes with the last session ending by 1:00 PM on Sunday.

  Denver schedule:  March, July and November. The first session is held on a Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.  The Program continues with a full day of sessions on Friday and concludes with the last session ending by 1:00 PM on Saturday. 

New in 2011, the ProBE Program will be held in Toronto, Ontario, on October 21-23 to accommodate Canadian licensees and regulatory health colleges.   

BACKGROUND:

• 1992 -the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners brought the members of The Ethics Group, LLC, together with a special challenge: an increasing number of physicians had been identified by the Board for ethical infractions, suggesting the need for a focused educational intervention addressing these specific issues. The New Jersey Board envisioned an educational intervention that would deal broadly with professional  ethics and boundary issues and directly with specific identified violations. The ProBE (Professional/Problem-Based Ethics) Program was established.  

• 1996 - ProBE Program offered nationally and has been subscribed to and/or endorsed by 45 licensing boards in the United States and subspecialty boards.
• August 2007 -The Ethics Group, LLC, merged with the Center for Personalized Education for Physicians (CPEP) to offer the ProBE Program under CPEP auspices.

For more information, contact Helen Braxton or call 303.577.3232, ext. 206.  You can also click here to download the ProBE brochure.

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