EthoS Fellowship
Description of Course:
The meeting would simply be another class of the fellowship: it would serve as the first class for the incoming fellows and the last class for the outgoing fellows. Class time would only need to be about 3 hours and consist of the final graduating presentations of the outgoing fellows to their audience. The rest of the time would facilitate networking and the introduction of collaborative ideas for research.
- Citizenship and Global Responsibility
Half Day
8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Assess fellows' ability to interpret specific ethics concepts with a presentation
Illustrate to the incoming fellows the nature of the fellowship's end objective
Organize collaboration and discourse between incoming and outgoing fellows
| Activity Order | Title of Presentation or Activity | Presenter/Faculty Name | Presenter/Faculty Role | Presenter/Faculty Email | Presenter/Faculty Institution | Time allotted in minutes for activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Current EthoS fellows Presentations Part I |
Piroska Kopar |
Moderator |
pkopar@ethiline.org |
University of Utah |
90 |
2 |
Break |
Piroska Kopar |
Moderator |
pkopar@ethiline.org |
University of Utah |
30 |
3 |
Current EthoS fellows Presentations Part II |
Shuddhadeb Ray |
Moderator |
shuddhadeb.ray@advocatehealth.org |
Wake Forest University |
90 |
4 |
Lunch and Networking |
Piroska Kopar |
Moderator |
pkopar@ethiline.org |
University of Utah |
45 |
5 |
Exchange of project and research ideas/Collaborative planning |
Douglas Brown |
Session Lead |
debrown@wustl.edu |
Washington University in Saint Louis |
45 |
Many fellows of the EthoS fellowship are not current ASE members, although they are incentivized to become ASE members by paying a lower tuition cost. By incorporating a required in-person meeting for their fellowship course, fellows will be much more likely to want to stay for more of the course and be further incentivized to become ASE members. ASE membership would also serve as a platform for our alumni and thus would be strongly encouraged. Of note, some of our fellows are surgical educators who practice in surgery-adjacent fields, such as anesthesia. This in-person course would be a great opportunity to appeal to potential members in surgery-adjacent arenas, including to military members and APPs.
The fellows are already required to complete a detailed reflective exercise re their approach to surgical ethics and ethics education at the beginning of the year. The end-of year fellows are asked to complete the same exercise and then discuss the impact the fellowship had one their understanding, knowledge, and practical application. These reflections are then reviewed and analyzed by the core faculty in order to perform quality improvement measures for the following year's class. Re networking and future collaboration it will have to be measured after 2-3 years, since the very objective is the establishment of projects across classes.
The greatest measurement will be our most ambitious goal: the creation and maintenance of a surgical ethics education collaborative across fellowship years and institutions all tied together by an EthoS alumni network for ASE members. The main objectives for this collaborative are multi-institutional education and ethics research studies and their publication under the name of the ASE itself..
I expect that the Ethos Collaborative we plan to build over several years is going to be the leading AND driving force for defining surgical ethics and surgical ethics education. This is an area that is much needed in practice and yet no organization or institution is claiming it as its own. I see the ASE as the prefect host for this with a corresponding opportunity to dramatically increase both direct impact and membership by taking ownership of the uncharted territories of our surgical future (e.g. xenotransplantation, AI, etc.)
The budget would be supported from the tuition the fellows had already paid. It would include the charges for the room (not sure how much that is), AV equipment, and lunch for 40 people ($1,0000). So far the roughly $40,000 dollars the fellows had paid in tuition has not been touched at all, so it should be available.
PLEASE NOTE THAT BELOW I WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE 0 FOR THE REGISTRATION FEE, BUT IT IS ACTUALLY INCLUDED IN THE TUITION THE FELLOWS ALREADY PAY.
No, CME will not be offered.
$0.00
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