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The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities promotes the exchange of ideas and fosters multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and inter-professional scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in clinical and academic bioethics and the medical humanities.
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Task Force on Graduate Medical Education on Bioethics and Humanities
Purpose
This web site serves as a resource for educators and practitioners who teach bioethics and medical humanities in all residency and fellowship programs in North America. The links below are intended to serves as informational in guiding programs towards fulfilling the educational goals of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). As many of the General Competencies pertain to the art of medicine, this site serves as a web-based resource to meet these new training requirements. All training programs in medicine are responsible to meet the new accreditation requirements as of July 1, 2002.
ACGME Web Site on General Competencies
The ACGME has its own website describing the framework for its new General Competencies, and proposed methods of implementation and evaluation. The ACGME General Competencies contain essential educational goals regarding professionalism and ethics in all GME programs. The General Competencies are here.
The ASBH Syllabus Exchange Project
This ASBH Task Force has peer-reviewed program syllabi that have been submitted for open source use in residency education.
Enter the Syllabus Exchange Project.
If you have syllabi to submit for open source, non-copyrighted use (electronic versions only) or if you wish to help with the project of reading syllabi to link them to the General Competencies, contact David Doukas, MD.
The ASBH Model Curriculum Project on Bioethics and Humanities
This ASBH Task Force has developed an Open Source response to teach Bioethics and Humanities across multiple disciplines, while upholding the goals of the ACGME Competencies. In each competency, proposed methods of implementation, readings, and evaluation are suggested. .
Enter the Model Curriculum Project
Additional Resources
The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)
The AAMC responded to, and added detail to the ACGME requirements, during this past year. The full AAMC response to the GME Core Curriculum can be purchased here.
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