| Date: | Wednesday April 20, 2022 |
| Time: | 12:15-17:00 |
| Place: | DIAS auditorium and DIAS seminar room, SDU, Denmark |
| Registration: | By mail sundhedsfilosofi@sdu.dk before April 6, 2022. When enrolling please state if you wish to present a paper or not. Read more about the DIAS lecture and sign up here https://www.conferencemanager.dk/reidarpedersen |
| ECTS: | 0,5 without presentation - 1 with presentation |
Clinical ethics:
Masterclass with Professor Reidar Pedersen,
Centre of Medical Ethics, Oslo University
We invite PhD students working within the field of clinical ethics or in other ways working with ethical challenges in health care to participate in this Masterclass in clinical ethics. Professor Reidar Pedersen is one of the leading scholars in ethics and communication in health care and has worked with this area since 2003. Among his many fields of expertise are questions concerning informed consent, end of life ethics, advance care planning, resource allocation, coercion and involvement of next of kin, especially in mental health care. His research includes qualitative and quantitative methods, intervention studies, systematic reviews, and theoretical and philosophical analyses, which has resulted in a large number of publications (read more here). In 2010 Pedersen defended his PhD-thesis on empathy in medicine. In 2011 he was promoted to a post as a researcher with professor competence, and since 2015, he has been Professor and Head of the Centre for Medical Ethics. From 2020 an onwards, he also serves as Deputy head of the Institute of Health and Society. Read more about Pedersen’s academic work here
In the first part of the masterclass, Pedersen will present a DIAS lecture entitled ‘The development of clinical ethics support in Norwegian health care’ (for abstract, see below).
In the second part of the masterclass, PhD students will get the opportunity to present work related to the field of ethics in health care and get feedback from Pedersen and the rest of the group. Participants giving presentations should send in a short description of the part of their project or the problem that they want to discuss in advance. Descriptions should be 2-5 pages in length and should be sent to sundhedsfilosofi@sdu.dk, April 8th, 2022, at the latest. All the papers will be circulated in advance to all participants, and readings will be assigned after deadline for enrollment, if relevant.
Program:
- 11:15 - 12:15: DIAS Lecture, DIAS auditorium
- 12:15 - 13:30: Break
- 13:30 - 14:40: Introduction and discussion of PhD students’ projects, DIAS seminar room
- 14:40 - 15:00: Break
- 15:00 - 16:30: Discussion of PhD students’ papers and closing, DIAS seminar room
Presentation of the DIAS lecture:
Professor Reidar Pedersen, Centre of Medical Ethics, Oslo University
The development of clinical ethics support in Norwegian health care
Modern health care faces numerous ethical dilemmas. Clinical ethics support services have been developed in many countries in the last decades. In 2021 the Norwegian parliament made clinical ethics committees in health care mandatory by law, probably as the first country in the world. In this lecture I will present the development of clinical ethics support in Norway the last 25 years leading up to this law. This will include a brief presentation of the main clinical ethical challenges in the Norwegian health care services the last decades, key measures taken to deal with these ethical challenges, the role of Centre for medical ethics at the University of Oslo, and important future tasks for the field of clinical ethics.