Resident Ethics Rounds Curriculum is a three-year curriculum involving a monthly conference for pediatric interns and residents as well as other residents and medical students rotating through pediatrics. Led by Drs. Lyren and Fanaroff, this interactive curriculum addresses a breadth of issues in pediatric ethics that confront the modern pediatrician. Members of the house staff bring cases they have encountered to the attention of the course directors who then select individual cases for discussion based upon the entire curriculum. The course directors then facilitate what is generally an enthusiastic discussion among the residents regarding the selected case. Open only to house staff and students, this conference is designed to provide a supportive and confidential opportunity for pediatricians-in-training to consider cases they confront as part of their residency program, to increase their awareness of the ubiquity of pediatric ethical issues in the care of children, and to prepare them to handle these issues sensitively and appropriately throughout their pediatric career.
January, 2006
A seven-year old with fatal neurodegenerative disease
February, 2006
Withholding care in neonate
March, 2006
Adolescent confidentiality and consent issues
May, 2006
Patient Death and Resident Bereavement
June, 2006
Congenital Heart Disease
August, 2006
Pediatric Death
September, 2006
Diagnosis Disclosure: Parents who don’t want their child to know
October, 2006
Parental Presence at Resuscitation: 22 year old male with ALL, failed chemotherapy, hoping for BMT
November, 2006
Premie resuscitation