Case-Based Immigrant Health Ethics Curriculum: A Pathway to Improve Care and Advocacy.

Introduction Immigrants comprised a significant portion of the total population in the United States (US), and a considerable number of children in the US live with at least one immigrant parent, which has continued to increase over the past decades. However, healthcare providers (HPs) in the US report lack of comfort in interacting with immigrant and refugee populations. Methods The authors, in partnership with the Midwest Consortium of Global Health Educators, developed an innovative, interactive ethics curriculum within the Immigrant Partnership Advocacy and Curricular Kit (I-PACK).

Meeting the challenge of teaching bioethics: a successful residency curricula utilizing Team-Based Learning.

Background: Despite recognition by both the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Paediatrics (ABP) of the importance of bioethics education, curricular crowding, lack of perceived significance, and insufficient administrative support remain significant barriers to trainees gaining competency in bioethics. Few bioethics curricula at the graduate medical education level are evidence-based or comprehensive. We sought to develop and assess the effectiveness of a Team Based Learning (TBL) curriculum in improving residents' bioethics knowledge and their ability to evaluate ethical dilemmas.

Advanced Multimodal Communication Curriculum for Pediatric Residents.

Background: Medical educators juggle competing demands as they seek to integrate medical advancements and new technology with the call for earlier introduction to clinical experiences. Newer models of medical education place even greater emphasis on the importance of deliberate training of providers who can deliver compassionate patient-centered care. The need for adaptable, effective communication skills training has never been more relevant than now, in our high-tech and ever-evolving learning climate.

Pediatric Family-Centered Rounds and Humanism: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Meta-analysis.

Context: Pediatric family-centered rounds (FCRs) have been shown to have benefits in staff satisfaction, teaching, and rounding efficiency, but no systematic review has been conducted to explicitly examine the humanistic impact of FCRs.

Objective: The objective with this review is to determine if FCRs promote the core values of humanism in medicine by answering the question, "Do FCRs promote humanistic pediatric care?"

Data Sources: Using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we conducted a search of PubMed, Web of Science, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Dissertation Abstracts for peer-reviewed pediatric studies through January 1, 2020. We used search terms including FCRs, communication, humanism, and the specific descriptors in the Gold Foundation's definition of humanism.

"Be the Person You Ought to Be": A Convocation Speech to the Graduating Medical Students.

Unlabelled: In the age of coronavirus, our beloved Catholic Medical Association (CMA) medical students in the class of 2020, across the country, had "virtual graduations" and commencements, often separated from family and loved ones during a milestone in their vocations. Dr. Ashley K.

Post-Clerkship Curricular Reform: Specialty-Specific Tracks and Entrustable Professional Activities to Guide the Transition to Residency.

The development of core entrustable professional activities (EPA) for entering residency and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's milestones have spurred thinking about the fourth year of medical school as a transition to residency. In this monograph, we lay out our specialty focused post-clerkship curriculum and report learner and residency director perceptions over the first three years of implementation. Ongoing curricular monitoring has reinforced core principles but has also informed actionable quality improvement efforts.

Conventional revolution: the ethical implications of the natural progress of neonatal intensive care to artificial wombs.

Research teams have used extra-uterine systems (Biobags) to support premature fetal lambs and to bring them to maturation in a way not previously possible. The researchers have called attention to possible implications of these systems for sustaining premature human fetuses in a similar way. Some commentators have pointed out that perfecting these systems for human fetuses might alter a standard expectation in abortion practices: that the termination of a pregnancy also (inevitably) entails the death of the fetus.

Common, Difficult Questions about Providing Nutrition at End of Life: Bedside Application of Catholic Moral Teaching.

There is much confusion surrounding how to interpret provision of artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) at the bedside in complicated clinical circumstances. The specific scenario that prompted these questions was a request by a patient and her family to remove a feeding tube that had become, in the patient's eyes and opinion, disproportionately burdensome in her particular set of clinical circumstances. This clinically relevant article can be viewed as a bedside interpretation of Catholic bioethical teachings on provision of ANH to the dying patient.

Team-Based Learning in Bioethics Education: Creating a Successful Curriculum for Residents in an Era of "Curricular Squeeze".

Background: Team-based learning has been utilized inside and outside of medical education with success. Its use in bioethics education-particularly in graduate medical education-has been limited, despite its proven pedagogical strength and the critical importance of ethics and professionalism.

Activity: From 2015-2018, we created and administered 10 TBL bioethics modular exercises using L.

Integrating Simulated Patients in TBL: a Strategy for Success in Medical Education.

Background: Successful use of team-based learning (TBL) and simulated patients (SP) in medical schools is growing. We hypothesized that integrating SPs into TBL would enhance the traditional TBL.

Activity: From 2016 to 2018, we taught fourth-year medical students through an SP-TBL hybrid, utilizing an integrated SP interview.

Pre-clinical versus clinical medical students' attitudes towards the poor in the United States.

This study assessed the poverty-related attitudes of pre-clinical medical students (first and second years) versus clinical medical students (third and fourth years). First through fourth year medical students voluntarily completed the Attitude Towards Poverty scale. First and second year students were classified together in the preclinical group and third and fourth year students together in the clinical group.

The five-box method: The "four-box method" for the Catholic physician.

Background/hypothesis: The traditional ethical model of the "Four-Box Method" can be adapted to integrate the perspective of a Catholic physician. In an increasingly secularist environment, medical students and physicians are often asked to "leave religious beliefs at the door" and not consider the care and stewardship of our own morality and involvement as a provider. We reject this view.

The demands of human dignity: Sexuality in the young person with intellectual disabilities.

The topic of sexuality among the disabled is often ignored within Catholic seminaries; within pediatrics, it is treated as a "problem" where the best solution is contraception or sterilization. In this article, the authors argue for an approach to sexuality in disabled youth that is grounded in the inherent dignity of the person, borne out of Christ's own humanity. Because sexuality is a part of the human person in his or her totality, it cannot be ignored or obscured; on the other hand, it cannot also be the overriding "problem" which defines them.

Measuring cognitive outcomes in a pre-clinical bioethics course.

Medical schools universally accept the idea that bioethics courses are essential components of education, but few studies which measure outcomes (i.e., knowledge or retention) have demonstrated their educational value in the literature.