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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Sarah Rodriguez, PhD
Lecturer, Medical Education
Lecturer, Global Health Studies
Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program
Member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Northwestern University

Playing With Ethics: Using a Game to Teach Global Health Research Ethics to Undergraduate Students in the United States

Within the last decade global health opportunities have become quite popular in medical schools in the United States with students seeking ways to meaningfully contribute. Medical schools, however, are not the only part of a university offering opportunities and encouraging experiences abroad. There has been a parallel growth in global health on the undergraduate level with a similar focus on offering and encouraging opportunities from service learning, to study, to research. This talk focuses on the latter, research–specifically, a method of teaching American undergraduate students planning on doing research abroad in a low-or-middle income country how to consider some of the ethical questions and concerns that may arise while they are proposing their research topic, that may arise when they are doing their research, and that may arise after their research is finished and they have returned to their home university. This method of teaching is through the use of a board game. I will explain how students play the game and their reactions to it. I will conclude by discussing the intention of the game and why using the game is a meaningful way to encourage students to think about research that engages with the lives of others.

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Kelly Michelson, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Julia and David Uihlein Professor in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Attending Physician, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Decision Making and Communication for Critically Ill Children

This talk will describe some of the challenges with communication and decision making in the PICU. Issues related to standards for decision making in pediatrics and shared decision making will be discussed. One potential solution to address these challenges will be described.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

MK Czerwiec, RN, MA
Alum, Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Queer Panels: Comics & the AIDS Crisis

Comics have a long history in health education and political activism. From the first public mention of what would come to be known as AIDS (1981) to the present day, community response to HIV frequently takes comic form. This lecture will look at the role comics have historically played in response to HIV/AIDS and gesture to the future of AIDS and comics.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Tod Chambers, PhD

Associate Professor, Medical Education
Faculty, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Graduate Program
Member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

The Medical Humanities as Equipment

Most discussions of the relationship between literature and medicine comment either on the way medicine is represented within the text or on how reading the text will foster empathy in the reader. In this presentation, it will be argued that an application of Kenneth Burke’s notion of literature as “equipment for living” provides a powerful, alternative technique for making the humanities a practical tool for the lives of health care professionals. In this perspective literature can furnish health care professionals with ways to encompass, understand, and respond to commonly experienced and morally complex situations.

Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Preya Tarsney, JD
Bioethicist, Donnelley Ethics Program, 
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Instructor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Unveiling Assent

This presentation highlights the complexities with gaining assent from patients who cannot consent to treatment. We will discuss the conceptual differences and similarities between assent and consent, the practical challenges with gaining assent, and the ethical concerns that arise. This talk will also explore some strategies for gaining assent, such as negotiation and communication techniques that may prove helpful.