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Professional Development: Toddlers to Teens- The Ethics of Pediatric Decision Making
Presenter: D. Micah Hester, PhD
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Knowledge Gap: 
The purpose of this activity is to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on Professional Development: Toddlers to Teens - The Ethics of Pediatric Decision Making.

Target Audience
The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about Professional Development: Toddlers to Teens - The Ethics of Pediatric Decision Making and how it pertains to their respective profession.

 
Release and Expiration Dates
5/26/2017 - 5/26/2020

Objectives

  1. Explain ethical norms specific to pediatric care.
  2. Define ethical concerns when treating young children.
  3. Explain how caring for teenagers is affected by their cognitive development.

Biographical Info

D. Micah Hester is Division Chief of the Division of Medical Humanities and Professor of Medical Humanities and Pediatrics at UAMS, as well as clinical ethicist at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH).

Dr. Hester serves as co-course director of the medical students’ Practice of Medicine course, the physician assistant students’ ethics course, as well as the ethics in genetic counseling course. Along, with other Division faculty, he provides clinical ethics consultations at both UAMS and ACH, and he is director of the research ethics consult service for the UAMS Translational Research Institute. He also serves on numerous committees both locally and nationally, and produces scholarly research in bioethical/philosophical areas.

 




 


 

References
  1. Diekema 2011.  AAP Adolescent Medicine. 22:213-228
  2. Hester 2012, 120
  3. US Supreme Court (Rutledge) - Prince v. Massachusetts, 1944
  4. Brock/Buchanan 1989
  5. Kopelman 1997

 

Speaker Disclosures:
The planners, speakers, moderators, peer reviewers and /or panelists of this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

Planners: 
Kim Miller  
Susan Smith Dodson
Mark Jansen

Speaker:
D. Micah Hester, PhD

Peer Reviewers: 
Kim Miller, MCHES


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The University of Arkansas for Medical Science Office of Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

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