Pediatric Ethics and Harming the Innocent: On Dismissing Unvaccinated Children from Clinic

Pittsburgh, PA US
April 12, 2023

Many physicians—especially pediatricians—have responded to vaccine refusal by embracing two kinds of coercive measures: dismissing vaccine-refusing families from clinic and advocating for states to prevent unvaccinated children from attending school (by eliminating nonmedical exemptions to school-enrollment vaccine mandates). There is little reason to think these policies can achieve their goals. There is even less reason to believe they are ethically justified.

Target Audience

UPMC Health Plan Clinical Staff

Learning Objectives

ANCC/Social Work Objectives:

  1. Identify the core principles of pediatric ethics, especially as they relate to vaccination and immunization policy
  2. Explain ethics issues that are relevant to the dismissal of vaccine-refusing families from pediatric practices
  3. Evaluate efforts to eliminate nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates

Pharmacy Objectives:  

  1. Review how principles of ethics can impact implementation of vaccines in the pediatric patient population
  2. Discuss health impacts of dismissal of vaccine-refusing families from pediatric practices and eliminating nonmedical exemptions to school vaccines mandates
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/13/2023
Course expires: 
05/12/2023
Event starts: 
04/12/2023 - 9:00am EDT
Event ends: 
04/12/2023 - 11:00am EDT
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Program begins at 9:00am and ends at 10:00am.  Total Education Time = 1 Hour(s)

TIME

CONTENT

PRESENTER

9:00-9:20 am

Discuss the core principles of pediatric ethics as they relate to pediatric immunizations and vaccinations

Mark Navin, PhD, HEC-C

9:20-9:30 am

Discuss the ethical issues that arise and are relevant to dismissal of patients from clinics and practices because of vaccine refusal

Mark Navin, PhD, HEC-C

9:30-9:50 am

Discuss and evaluate efforts being made to eliminate nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates

Mark Navin, PhD, HEC-C

9:50-10:00 am

Case Discussion

Mark Navin, PhD, HEC-C

UPMC Health Plan
600 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
United States
Mark Navin, PhD, HEC-C 
Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Oakland University, Rochester, MI
 
Mark C. Navin, PhD, HEC-C, is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Oakland University (Rochester, MI), Lecturer in the Department of Foundational Medical Studies at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, and Clinical Ethicist at Corewell Health (formerly Beaumont Health). His research is primarily in clinical ethics and ethics in public health and includes empirical work in both areas. His monograph, Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology and Health Care, was published by Routledge in 2016. Along with Katie Attwell, Mark is the author of America's New Vaccine Wars: California and the Politics of Mandates (forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2023). He has led articles that appeared in journals including Pediatrics, Vaccine, American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Bioethics, and Journal of Medical Ethics.
 

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.

Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 1 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit(s).
 
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1 contact hour(s).

CCM CE will be provided:  1 CE - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner approximately 6-8 weeks following the live date of the course.

This activity is eligible for endorsed credit for UPMC Health Plan EMTs and Paramedics.  Complete ETHOS course work, obtain the attendance certificate, and submit to EMS governing body for 1 CE credit(s).

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 1 continuing education credit(s).

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.

NOTE:  Paramedic/EMT CE is approved for any activity in which ANCC (nursing CE) is approved.  This is per Heather Bogdon and Christie Hempfling

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
  • 1.00 Attendance
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