Office of Medical Education

Contemporary Ethical Issues in Clinical Medicine -Surgery 

L3 Clerkships

 

12 weeks

Clerkship requires each student to complete the following online modules and successfully complete the required quizzes:

1. Sunshine Act
2. Disruptive Physicians
3. Communication
4. Informed Consent

Sunshine Act

• Read Sunshine Act
• Read Sunshine Act WSJ Exerpts
• Take Sunshine Act Quiz

Disruptive Physicians

• Read Disruptive Physicians - Louisiana Law
• Read Disruptive Physicians - LSBME
• Read Disruptive Physician - The Joint Commission
• Take Disruptive Physicians Quiz

Communication

• Read The New Joint Commission Standards for Patient-Centered Communication White Paper
• Read Interim LSU Public Hospital Policy #7012: Interpreter Services
• Take Communication Quiz

Informed Consent

• Read Informed Consent: Introduction
• Read Informed Consent Law RS 40:1159.4
• Read HIV Consent Law RS 40:1171.3
• Read An Enterprise Risk Management Approach to Critical Patient Decision-Making from AHLA Connections February 2016
• Read Informed Consent: When & Why from Virtual Mentor, August 2008 
  • http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2008/08/ccas2-0808.html
• Read Weighing the Duty to Inform a Patient of Possible Future Illness from Virtual Mentor, September 2008
  • http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2008/09/ccas3-0809.html
• Take Informed Consent Quiz