PROFESSIONAL/PROBLEM-BASED ETHICS         

The ProBE Program is the original educational intervention in ethics for all health care professionals under discipline by their medical licensing board or other oversight agencies.  Past participants have included primarily physicians, but we have also served practitioners from dentistry, nursing, podiatry, chiropractic, and 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, and 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 tailored to the professional ethic problems that are brought to the table by the participants, each offering of the ProBE Program is unique in substance. At the same time, the ProBE intervention maintains a broad conceptual framework within which the 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 six times each year – January, March, May, July, September, and November. Each Program begins with the first session on Friday evening 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.

In January, May and September ProBE is convened in the academic retreat setting of the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Convenient for travel, the Center is two miles from the New Jersey Turnpike (Exit 9) and about 25 minutes from Newark International Airport. It is set on the former Lindenwood estate and offers very reasonably priced bed-and-breakfast accommodations for ProBE attendees ($84 single/$95 double).  Attendees who reside in the area are not required to engage accommodations at the Center and may choose to commute daily.

In March, July and November, ProBE meets in Denver, Colorado at the Radisson Stapleton Plaza Hotel with reasonably priced accommodations ($80 single or double) for ProBE attendees who choose not to commute daily. A free shuttle service from the Denver International Airport takes 20 minutes. 

BACKGROUND:

In 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 the specific identified violations.  The ProBE (Professional/Problem-Based Ethics) Program was developed in response to this vision.  

Originally New Jersey Based, The ProBE Program expanded in 1996 to be offered nationally and has been subscribed to and/or endorsed by 45 licensing boards in the United States. It has also been utilized as a mediation program by subspecialty boards, and part of the PREP (Practitioner Remediation and Enhancement Partnership) "alternative to discipline" intervention.

In August 2007, The Ethics Group, LLC, merged with CPEP (Center for Personalized Education for Physicians) to offer the ProBE Program under CPEP auspices. This collaboration promises the highest quality of assessment, evaluation and educational intervention based on nearly four decades of combined experience. The continuity of the ProBE Program's leadership and experienced interdisciplinary faculty remains in place. CPEP's reputation as a pioneer in personalized physician assessment and remediation compliments the ProBE Program's national reputation for ethics education targeted to the specific ethical lapses of health professionals under discipline. 

For more information, contact Sharon Miller at: smiller@cpepdoc.org or 303.577.3232, ext. 35.

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