Lauris Kaldjian Guest Lecture on Practical Wisdom in Healthcare. CPD Forum.

Join us for the Lauris Kaldjian Guest Lecture on Practical Wisdom in Healthcare

This in-person event will be held at the University of Birmingham Medical School in the CPD Forum. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from renowned speaker Lauris Kaldjian on the importance of practical wisdom in the healthcare field. The lecture will last 50 mins with additional time for Q&A.

Guest Lecture Objectives:

1. Describe a framework of practical wisdom in healthcare.

2. Discuss the relevance of practical wisdom within the moral dynamic of shared decision making.

3. Differentiate between ‘recommending’ and ‘attempting to persuade’ in shared decision making.

4. Illustrate the need for practical wisdom when using persuasion in healthcare.

Abstract:

Practical wisdom helps us identify good means to worthwhile ends. In healthcare, practical wisdom helps promote what is good for patients by focusing on their goals, attending to their circumstances, exercising moral virtues, applying ethical principles, and engaging in shared deliberation for shared decision making. This process routinely involves providing information and making recommendations. When patients do not accept recommendations, healthcare professionals sometimes use persuasion to promote a patient’s good. Practical wisdom helps guide the careful use of persuasion by attending to goals, circumstances, and ethics, so that healthcare professionals avoid the risks of paternalism, manipulation, and coercion.

Biographical note:

Dr. Kaldjian directs the Program in Bioethics and Humanities at the Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa (Iowa City, USA), where he is also a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. He received a BA from Oxford University, an MD from the University of Michigan, and an MDiv and PhD in Christian ethics from Yale University, where he also completed his residency and fellowship training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. His research interests include ethics education, end of life decision making, goals of care, disclosure of medical errors, religious and philosophical beliefs in medical ethics, practical wisdom in medicine, and conscientious practice. His work has been published in a variety of journals, and he is the author of Practicing Medicine and Ethics: Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, and Goals of Care. At the Carver College of Medicine, he directs the Biomedical Ethics curriculum and serves on the Ethics Committee and Ethics Consult Service. He also co-directs Scholars in Ethics and Medicine, a program sponsored by the Hyde Park Institute for students at the University of Chicago.

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