From the Classroom to the Clinic: Humanities and Education in Bioethics

8th October 2012,

Cumberland Lodge Windsor Great Park.

This colloquium will explore the contribution of the humanities and the social sciences to the education of medical ethics and bioethics to health professionals, biomedical researchers, and the public. The core premise of this event is that health is an interdisciplinary phenomenon, and that contemporary issues related to healthcare, health policy and medical ethics are best addressed with an interdisciplinary approach. The colloquium will be structured around four key themes:

 

 
1. Methods of inquiry into bioethics education: an exploration of the different styles of bioethics, different approaches to the study of
bioethical phenomena, and the role of the humanities, history and the social sciences in the context of bioethics education.
 
2. Ethics, education and the medical researcher: an exploration of how biomedical researchers recognize and engage with ethical issues, and
possible educational interventions for biomedical scientists.
 
3. Curricular and structural processes in the ethics education of clinicians: this theme will address the design of curricula and
implementation of ethics education by institutions, and explore the formal and informal ways in which clinicians access and implement ethics education.
 
4. Ethics and public education: An exploration of the ways in which bioethics influences public policy, journalism, and the public media.
 
This event will bring together delegates from a range of academic and disciplinary backgrounds to foster an interdisciplinary sensibility towards
healthcare and bioethics. We will welcome up to 50 delegates from philosophy, law, the social sciences, the humanities, all clinical
disciplines and healthcare sciences. Because of limited numbers, we will give priority to delegates submitting an abstract.
 
If you wish to present a conference paper or poster at this event, please submit an abstract (max 2000 characters) online by 10 August. Oral
presentations are strictly limited to 15 minutes. Poster size is A1.
Abstracts can be submitted via: www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/programme/Forthcoming+Events/Bioethics 
 
Successful applicants will be notified by 17 August and will be required to confirm their attendance by registering via the Cumberland Lodge website
within two weeks.
 
The colloquium registration fee is £45 inclusive of public lecture, refreshments, lunch and dinner. For any enquires please contact

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10 IME-Sponsored Places for students at Cumberland Lodge Colloqium, October 8th
 
The Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) have generously sponsored the £45 registration fee for up to 10 UK medical students at 'From the Classroom to the Clinic: Humanities and Bioethics in Education'. 
The places will be allocated in open competition and are conditional on an abstract being accepted as a poster or oral presentation. 
We will also consider applications from healthcare workers and postgraduates who teach medical ethics in the UK (However, successful student applications will be given priority for this funding). 
Only one student or medical ethics teacher will be sponsored per abstract successfully submitted, please email 
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  for further information (Deadline for abstracts is August 10th)
Abstracts may be submitted on the website

View Rachel Warren's Poster on the IME Website Presented at this event here.