Are Emergency Medicine Residents Prepared to Meet the Ethical Challenges of Clinical Practice? Findings from an Exploratory National Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Board of Emergency Medicine require clinical ethics education in residency training, instruction varies widely. We assessed the educational preparedness of trainees in emergency medicine to address ethics challenges common to their field.

Methods

The survey assessed two outcomes: 1) knowledge of specific ethical challenges and 2) perceived educational preparedness, across five ethics areas: 1) informed consent and decisional-capacity assessment, 2) surrogate decision making, 3) interpretation of advanced directives, 4) withdrawing and/or withholding life support, and 5) presumed consent for emergency treatment. Clinical vignettes, revised through expert panel review and pilot testin

SUBMITTER: Padela AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194044 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature