Incorporating Balanced Accountability in a Clinical Ethics Fellowship Program

摘要

As the emerging profession of clinical ethics continues to reflect on important questions such as attestation, certification, and accreditation (Magill 2013),Weise and Daly (2014) provide the opportunity to consider the degree to which clinical ethics consultants should accept accountability for the advice rendered in an ethics consult. This topic has broad application throughout the discipline toward continuing to promote practice standards (Reel 2012) such as the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Core Competencies for Healthcare Ethics Consultation (American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Core Competencies Update Task Force 2011). In addition, this discourse is also relevant for those who direct energies toward training future clinical ethics consultants. Specifically, I aim to look at how the teaching of balanced accountability might be integrated in a clinical ethics fellowship program.