THE 7 STAGE MODEL FOR FACILITATING MORAL CASE DELIBERATION IN HEALTH-CARE INSTITUTIONS: A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF A META-MODEL.

During a moral case deliberation-session, health care professionals come together in order to reflect on a moral issue they have to deal with. Since the whole process of sorting facts out, identifying moral issues, formulating and weighing arguments et cetera, can be quite complex, there should always be a well-trained facilitator present, who safeguards the flow of the session. In order to train and to assess the quality of these facilitators, we developed the so-called 7 stage model of moral case deliberation.

Training healthcare professionals as moral case deliberation facilitators: evaluation of a Dutch training programme.

Until recently, moral case deliberation (MCD) sessions have mostly been facilitated by external experts, mainly professional ethicists. We have developed a train the facilitator programme for healthcare professionals aimed at providing them with the competences needed for being an MCD facilitator. In this paper, we present the first results of a study in which we evaluated the programme.

Enhancing reflection: an interpersonal exercise in ethics education.

There are no moral cookbooks--no algorithms for whipping up moral confections to suit every occasion. But more modest and flexible tools might still be useful for practical ethics. One team describes how professionals can be taught to use a framework for understanding moral problems.