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THE ProBE PROGRAM
PROFESSIONAL/PROBLEM-BASED ETHICS The ProBE Program is the original educational intervention in ethics for all health care professionals under discipline by their licensing boards 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 seven times each year – January, March, May, June, 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, June and September ProBE is convened at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites - Tower Center/East Brunswick, New Jersey. Convenient for travel, the hotel is located right off of Exit 9 of the NJ Turnpike within the Tower Center Office Complex.
In March, July and November, ProBE meets in Denver, Colorado at the Holiday Inn Denver East - Stapleton 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.
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.
For more information, contact Sharon Miller at: smiller@cpepdoc.org or 303.577.3232, ext. 35. The
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