Ackerman Symposium on Medicine and Culture - Beating it into them? Beating it out of them? Moral Values in Medical Education Today

Date: 

Monday, May 7, 2007, 12:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University Division of Medical Ethics 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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Symposium

Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts and Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted

Case Study: A Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills

Standardized Patients in Medical Education: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?

Lecture

Moral Development and Professionalism in Medicine: Learning to Use Two Traditions of Open-ocean Navigation

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Thomas S. Inui, M.D.

President and CEO, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care; Sam Regenstrief Professor of Health Services Research; Associate Dean, Health Care Research, Indiana University School of Medicine

A primary care physician, educator, and researcher, he previously held positions as head of general internal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Paul C. Cabot professor and founding chair of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Inui’s special emphases in teaching and research have included physician/ patient communication, health promotion and disease prevention, the social context of medicine, and medical humanities. His honors include elected membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars, the Institute of Medicine, a USPHS Medal of Commendation, serving as a member of the Council and President of the Society of General Internal Medicine, receipt of SGIM’s Robert Glaser Award (for generalism), and election to the Institute of Medicine (and subsequently the IOM Council). He has participated in the publication of more than 200 manuscripts on a broad variety of topics. Dr. Inui lists over 250 publications on his CV.

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