3/24/26 - Medical Grand Rounds: Respect for Persons: What Bioethics Gets Right, What Bioethics Gets Wrong, and Why it Matters

Please join us for our next Medicine Grand Rounds featuring our Tisherman Endowed Lectureship speaker, Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH, from Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Respect is fundamental to all human interactions—and especially vital in healthcare. Western bioethics has long equated respect with patient autonomy, grounding informed consent and shared decision-making, yet patients describe respect more broadly in terms of how we listen, acknowledge individuality, and respond to suffering. Using patients’ voices and insights from philosophy and linguistics, Dr. Beach will outline practical steps to expand how respect is taught and measured and to foster it consistently in everyday clinical interactions.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Recognize and understand causes of disrespect and dehumanization.
  • Name four dimensions of respect as articulated by patients.
  • Apply practical and conceptual approaches to fostering respect and eliminating disrespect as a harm.

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/24/2026
Course expires: 
03/24/2029

Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH — Professor of Medicine, Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics, John Hopkins School of Medicine

Disclosures:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Disclosures:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation Statement

Jointly Accredited Provider Mark

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh designates enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 Attendance
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