Intensive Scholars Institute:
Developing Leadership for Health Care Systems
June 11th - July 6th, 2007
Program in Ethics and Policy in Health Care Systems
Center for Biomedical Ethics
University of Virginia
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Overall Mission: To lay the groundwork for future leaders in health care systems to manage ethical conflicts
Objectives: To help participants in Intensive Summer Institute learn to
- Identify stakeholders in healthcare systems
- Clarify the competing values of stakeholders
- Prioritize competing values
Programmatic Activities: Intensive Summer Institute participants will begin to develop the necessary knowledge, attitudes, and skills required for managing ethical conflicts as future leaders through two activities:
1. Participating in an intensive seminar series that includes reading and discussing seminar materials with faculty
2. Researching and developing a case study under interdisciplinary faculty guidance
INTENSIVE SEMINAR SERIES TOPICS AND TENTATIVE FACULTY
Seminar 1. Brief overview healthcare systems (Chen/Mills/Tereskerz)
Purpose:
To introduce participants to the various components of healthcare systems
Healthcare delivery system;
Research enterprise;
Pharmaceutical/biotechnology/device industries
Public health;
Global health
The legal system under which these components function
To briefly discuss values embedded in each
Seminar 2. Healthcare Delivery System (White/Spencer)
Purpose:
To identify its stakeholders
To identify the relationships among them
To identify competing values
To discuss legal and regulatory framework
To identify "challenges" facing the delivery system
To discuss some suggested reforms.
Seminar 3. Research Enterprise (Tereskerz/Moreno)
Purpose:
To introduce participants to the role of the research enterprise;
To identify its stakeholders
To identify the relationships among them
To identify competing values
To discuss legal and regulatory framework
To identify "challenges" facing the research enterprise
To discuss suggested reforms
Seminar 4. Pharmaceuticals/Biotechnology/Device Industry (Tereskerz/Mills)
Purpose
To identify stakeholders
To identify the relationships among them
To identify competing values
To discuss legal and regulatory framework
To identify "challenges" facing the delivery system
To discuss some suggested reforms
Seminar 5. Evolving Technologies and their possible effect on the Society (Moreno/Davis)
Purpose: To introduce students to the controversies surrounding
Stem cell research
Genetic and genomic discoveries
Advances in neurological research
To discuss how these controversies can be managed
Seminar 6. Public Health (Chen/Moreno)
Purpose:
To identify stakeholders
To identify the relationships among them
To identify competing values
To discuss legal and regulatory framework
To identify "challenges" facing the public health system
To discuss some suggested reforms.
Seminar 7. Financing the Delivery System (Mills/Spencer)
Purpose:
To look more closely at the various ways of financing the delivery system
To examine competing values and how they are affected
To identify and discuss "challenges" facing the system
To discuss reform proposals
Seminar 8. Global Health (Mills/TBA)
Purpose:
To use the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa to:
To identify stakeholders
To identify the relationships among them
To identify competing values
To discuss legal and regulatory framework
To identify the "challenges" facing developed and developing nations
To discuss current policy.
Seminar 9. Professionalism in Health Care Systems (Mills/Chen)
Purpose:
To discuss changing notions of professionalism in healthcare delivery
Seminar 10 and 11 are devoted to reviewing student projects
The last meeting will be held with sponsors students will be expected to have an "executive summary" of their work for them
CASE STUDY TOPICS
Students will be formed into teams. These teams will reflect a diversity of interests. For instance, we will pair pre-medical students with pre-law students or business students.
Teams will be asked to choose a case study topic for further research. Students will be asked to:
Identify an important issue facing the healthcare system
Identify the stakeholders
Identify the values of each stakeholder
Identify whether or not there are values conflicts
State the impact of the issue on each stakeholder
Prioritize values
Assess the pros/cons and likely consequences of various courses of action
Produce a consensus statement
Make a decision on the "way forward"
Explain what values will not be accommodated and why
Case study topics will be chosen by participants, but may include topics such as:
The Uninsured in America
Controversies in stem cell research
The Role of the FDA in Regulating Pharmaceuticals
The Role of Private Industry in Financing Health Care Benefits: Can it be Sustained?
Conflicts of Interest in Academic Research
Pharmaceuticals and the Portfolio of Medicines Being Produced
The Changing Role of Physicians in Society
The Community Hospital: Can its Mission be Sustained?
The Academic Medical Center: Can its Mission be Sustained?
Is "Consumer Empowerment" the Answer to the Financing Crisis?
Is "Direct to Consumer" Advertising a Benefit or Burden?
What the Nursing Shortage will Mean to an Aging Society