Interfaith and Multi-Cultural Health Care Ethics in Context
Interfaith & Multi-Cultural Health Care Ethics seminar
Understanding the Context of Roman Catholic Health Care
Interfaith & Multi-Cultural Health Care Ethics seminar
Religiously sponsored health care institutions have an opportunity to provide leadership in ongoing ethical education of their staff. This seminar is a platform bringing together health care professionals from various institutions to discuss contemporary health care ethics, engaging in conversation with health care professionals and ethicists from different religious traditions and cultures, and visiting sites that shed light on the historical development of different approaches to health care, healing and ministry to the infirm.
Venues for this program include (but not limited to) southern Spain (Muslim, Jewish and Christian perspectives on health care), Bangkok (Christian and Buddhist/Western and Eastern approaches to health care), Ghana (Christian, Muslim and Native African approaches to healing and health care).
Ideal participants are health care professionals – nurses, chaplains, physicians, physician assistants, paramedical personnel, social workers, board members & administrators, ethics committee members, and travel companions and spouses.
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Understanding the Context of Roman Catholic Health Care
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (4th Edition – July, 2001). These build upon a long history of Christian/Catholic health care ethics. To better understand these directives and how they apply to the everyday practice of health care professionals, this program was developed to build upon a very successful pilot seminar held January, 2002 in Rome.
The seminar is envisioned as a platform for bringing a group of health care professionals from your institution together for an introduction to the development and fundamental principles of the directives and to enjoy a tour of Rome - linking the history of Christianity at Rome with the development of Catholic health care ethics. The program is educational, it builds bonds among members of your institution, it can increase interest and participation in ethics committees, and it is personally and spiritually renewing.
Ideal participants are health care professionals – nurses, chaplains, physicians, physician assistants, paramedical personnel, social workers, board members & administrators, ethics committee members, and travel companions and spouses.
Ethicists will be engaged who are well-versed in the directives and facilitate dynamic discussions among participants. Sightseeing will include guides who understand the context of this program and link historical and religious sites with the objectives of the ethics seminar.
Email or contact us to learn more about how we can customize this program for your specific interests.