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Ethics & Professionalism


P Dunscombe

N Bahar

C Serago
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N Ozturk





P Dunscombe1*, N Bahar2*, C Serago3*, N Ozturk4*, (1) The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, (2) Landauer Medical Physics , Houston, TX, (3) Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, (4) The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Presentations

SA-A-BRD-0 (Saturday, March 5, 2016) 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Grand Ballroom D


Ethics and professionalism underpin everything the medical physicist does. Unfortunately these topics receive little prominence in education, training and particularly continuing professional development due in part, at least, to the relative paucity of succinct and accessible educational materials geared to the medical physicist. This SAM workshop will start with an overview of some of the more widely recognized ethical viewpoints: duty ethics, consequentialist ethics and virtue ethics. The remainder of the workshop will be configured around the AAPM’s Code of Ethics. The 4 major sections in the Guidelines in the Code of Ethics will be reviewed: Professional Conduct, Research Ethics, Education Ethics and Business Ethics. The presentation of these topics will be informed by the results of the recent AAPM survey on ethics and professionalism. It is intended to combine the appeal of a SAM session with the interactive learning that takes place in a small group format. Participants will divide themselves into informal group of 5 – 10 and discuss each SAM question for 5 minutes or so before individually using their clickers to respond to the question.

Learning Objectives:
1.To appreciate the differences between the major schools of ethical thought.
2.To gain an overview of the content of the AAPM Code of Ethics.
3.Through discussion with colleagues, develop approaches to recognizing and responding to ethical issues in our professional lives.


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