IME - Education Project

A key aim of the IME three year Education Project on learning, teaching and assessment in undergraduate medical ethics, is to foster and facilitate a sense of community between teachers of medical ethics and law and to support learning.

Consideration of the legal and ethical issues in respect of teaching using patients who lack capacity may provoke a difference of opinion. Does the Mental Capacity Act 2005 enable the teaching of medical students using patients who are unconscious, and where it has not been possible to get prior consent, using 'best interests' as a justification?

The focus of the morning session will be a 'Mock Trial'. Professor Penney Lewis (King's College London), representing P, a patient, is seeking a declaration that Andrew Tillyard, (I.T.U Consultant, Peninsula Medical School) has been unlawfully teaching medical students using unconscious patients without having first elicited their consent. A number of 'expert witnesses' will be called to represent different perspectives including that of the GMC, a patient and an F1/medical student.

In the afternoon session workshops will enable discussion of ethical and legal issues arising in different clinical settings where patients are unable to give consent to their involvement in medical student teaching: Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, ITU, Care of the Elderly and Surgery. Each workshop will address the following:

There is no charge for the conference for participants. The IME is very keen to welcome clinical and non clinical teachers of ethics and law. Places are limited to a maximum of 60.

Please book by emailing Elaine Paris, Joint Project Manager, IME Education Project:
educational@instituteofmedicalethics.org

Further details can also be obtained from Elaine Paris.

IME - Education Project Conferences

Education Project

Teaching and the patient who lacks capacity - Is it ethical? Is it legal?

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