Medical Humanities and Healthcare Ethics in Clinical Practice

September 13, 2024 to September 15, 2024

Over the course of the weekend we will explore the intersections of the medical humanities and healthcare ethics to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and understanding among healthcare professionals. The presentations are designed to promote cultural competence and sensitivity by examining how diverse cultural, social, and historical contexts influence healthcare delivery, provider-patient relationships and ethical decision-making. We will examine the role of healthcare professionals as advocates for social justice and equity with regard to issues of trauma, mental health, healthcare disparities, and access to care. We aim to foster a sense of community and shared commitment to advancing the goals of medical humanities and healthcare ethics in diverse professional, patient care, and organizational settings.

Target Audience

Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Pastoral Care and other Health Care Professionals with an interest in healthcare ethics.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this conference, participants should be able to:
1. Discuss the history and role of narrative medicine in the health care field;
2. Define and discuss how the medical humanities and healthcare ethics intersect to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among healthcare professionals and within healthcare teams;
3. Recognize how diverse cultural, social and historical contexts influence healthcare delivery and impact provider-patient relationships and ethical decision-making.
4. Describe and appreciate the universality of being impacted by trauma and how to use this understanding to shift their thinking around healing;
5. Examine the relationship between health, healthcare, AI, and social opportunity in light of literature on social determinants of health

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 14.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 14.00 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.
  • 14.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 14.00 ASWB
  • 14.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
06/10/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Event starts: 
09/13/2024 - 11:00am EDT
Event ends: 
09/15/2024 - 12:10pm EDT
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Oglebay Resort & Conference Center
465 Lodge Dr
Wheeling, WV
United States

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.

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.

Physician (CME) - The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE) - The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 14 contact hours.

Physician Assistant (AAPA) - The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 14 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. 

Social Work (ASWB) - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 14 continuing education credits.

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

  • 14.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 14.00 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.
  • 14.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 14.00 ASWB
  • 14.00 Attendance
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