This workshop will provide an overview of considerations relating to design and delivery of clinical ethics curricula for practicing health professionals. Participants will discuss potential challenges in implementation of curricula and strategies for management of these. Participants will have the opportunity to draft, present, and receive peer feedback on plans for curricula designed for their local context and education and training priorities.
Speaker
Dr. Pat McConville
Senior Lecturer, Health Ethics, Law and Professional Development
Faculty of Health/School of Medicine
Deakin University
Dr. Pacifico Eric Eusebio Calderon
Head, Clinical Ethics Services; Associate Professor, College of Medicine, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Philippines
PhD Researcher, Faculty of Laws, University College London
Biography:
Dr. Pat McConville is a philosopher and bioethicist, and a lecturer in Health Ethics, Law and Professionalism at Deakin University, Australia. He has broad interests in phenomenology, philosophy of medicine, and bioethics. He has taught subjects in philosophy, bioethics, nursing, and medicine at Deakin, Monash, and other universities. In his current role, Pat teaches into the Medical Doctor course, and chairs the undergraduate Applied Ethics and postgraduate Health Law and Ethics units.
He mostly undertakes research in phenomenology of health and illness, particularly applications of phenomenology to healthcare, and has a keen interest in cardiac experience and heart-related medical interventions. Some of his research interests are informed by his own lived experience as a single-ventricle heart disease patient, about which he has written and published.
Dr. Pacifico Eric Eusebio Calderon is a physician and interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans health professions education, healthcare ethics and law, and medical professionalism. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Professionalism, Medical Ethics, and Humanities at St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine. He also serves as Head of Clinical Ethics Services at St. Luke’s Medical Center; and Head of the Bioethics Unit at the National Children’s Hospital, Philippines. His work is actively engaged in clinical ethics, medical education, and healthcare policy. Pacifico completed his undergraduate degree in Biology (BSc) and medical degree (MD) at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines. He holds a Master of Bioethics from the University of Sydney; and a Master of Education from Monash University, Australia. He has also held research fellowships at Kyoto University, Japan, and Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where he explored various applications of clinical ethics in paediatrics. He is currently writing his PhD in Healthcare Ethics at the UCL Faculty of Laws in the UK.
Workshop Mode:
Half day
Who are the workshop’s targeted audience(s)?
Educators with responsibility for teaching ethics to practicing health professionals
