As part of its celebration of 20 years of bioethics education, The Bioethics Program of Clarkson University’s Lewis School of Health Sciences and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will continue its lecture series titled “Pioneering Bioethics: An Anniversary Celebration” on Nov. 12.
The Bioethics Program’s third lecture in the series is titled “Standardized Patients in Clinical Ethics Training”.
The Bioethics Program has strived to be on the cutting edge of educational pedagogy and was an early adopter of experiential learning and authentic assessment innovations. One of its distinctive educational components is its employment of Standardized Patient (SP) encounters to foster and assess students’ clinical ethical reasoning skills. SP encounters are a hallmark of medical training, in which a specially trained person portrays a patient to teach and assess clinical skills.
The Bioethics Program adapted this model to clinical ethics education, and it draws on Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Morchand Center for Clinical Excellence’s resources to provide its students access to world-class SPs and facilities.
The Bioethics Program’s lecture series to mark its twentieth anniversary continues with a panel on its SP pedagogy and the experience of students and standardized patients in these encounters.
The Bioethics Program’s virtual lecture series celebrates the program’s history and future. The monthly, free public panel discussions will run through February. The first panel focused on the challenges of bringing clinical ethics education online.
For more information on this webinar and the rest of the upcoming webinar series, or to register for the event, visit clarkson.edu/bioethics-program-20th-anniversary.