Clinical Ethics Beyond the Basics
About
Enhance your understanding of key ethical and legal challenges in healthcare through our ELECTIVES module series. This YouTube series offers bite-sized videos by guest lecturers from the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, covering complex yet essential topics in clinical ethics and law. Topics include Moral Distress in Healthcare which explores its impact, causes, and mitigation strategies. Conscientious Objection examines doctors’ rights and limitations in refusing treatments. Mandatory Reporting & Confidentiality discusses legal and ethical obligations in Singapore. Patients’ Rights & Responsibilities highlights Singapore’s legal and ethical frameworks. Challenging Patient Narratives presents case studies on ethical complexities in patient care. Genetic Testing Ethics delves into legal and ethical dilemmas in genetic screening. Reproductive Ethics introduces fundamental and emerging ethical issues. Genetic Selection & Procreative Beneficence examines the ethical questions in genetic choices. Ethical Issues in Palliative Care explores end-of-life ethical considerations. Public Health Ethics discusses key values, responses, and solutions in public health. Health Systems & Justice addresses socioeconomic determinants of health and policy implications. Caring for Vulnerable Persons provides insights on recognising and supporting vulnerable patients.
Educators
Professor Angus Dawson
Professor, CBmE, NUS
Assoc. Professor Michael Dunn
Associate Professor, CBmE, NUS
Dr Peter Loke
Academic Associate, CBmE, NUS
Dr Anita Lim
Adjunct Assistant Professor, CBmE, NUS
Dr Sumytra Menon
Deputy Director, CBmE, NUS
Mathavi Senguttuvan
Research Associate, CBmE, NUS
Professor Julian Savulescu
Director, CBmE, NUS
Dr Owen Schaefer
Assistant Professor, CBmE, NUS
Dr Neeta Satku
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, CBmE, NUS
Assoc. Professor Chan Mei Yoke
Adjunct Associate Professor, CBmE, NUS
Dr Serene Ong
Research Fellow, CBmE, NUS
Topics
Moral Distress
Educator: Assoc. Professor Michael Dunn
1. What is Moral Distress? An introduction to the concept and the role of conceptual analysis
2. What is Moral Distress? Working through a scenario
3. Cause and effect: What are the implications of moral distress?
4. Practical strategies for managing and mitigating moral distress
Professionals' Rights and Responsibilities
1. General discussion on professionals’ rights, right to dignity, right to health, and right to decline treatment
2. Professionals’ responsibilities
3. Conscientious objections
Reporting Requirements
1. Mandatory reporting requirements in Singapore
2. Legal and ethical issues in mandatory reporting by healthcare professionals
3. Confidentiality – importance and breaches
Patients’ Rights and Responsibilities
Educator: Dr Sumytra Menon
- Patients’ rights – overview and sources
- Patients’ responsibilities – overview, sources, and challenges
Caring for Challenging Patients and Families
1. Introduction
2. Caring for adolescents and inter-professional collaborations
3. Caring for patients with severe disabilities and/or cognitive impairments
4. Caring for patients with challenging family dynamics
Ethical Issues in Genetic Testing: Introduction to Genetic Testing
1. Familial implications of genetic testing
2. Discussion of a case ABC v. St George’s healthcare and others
Reproductive Ethics
1. Core Concepts
2. The Compelled Caesarean case
3. The abortion debate
4. Ethical issues in assisted reproduction
Reproduction, Genetic Selection, and Procreative Beneficence (Beginning of life decision-making)
1. Introduction to genetic selection
2. Procreative liberty
3. Procreative beneficence as a principle of reproductive decision-making
4. Should we enhance/ select better children?
Palliative Ethics
1. Overview of palliative ethics
2. Decision-making in palliative care
3. Medical futility and inappropriate therapies
4. Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide
Public Health and Ethics Public Health issues: an introduction
Educator: Professor Angus Dawson
1. Public Health Issues in Application – Lifestyles and Chronic Diseases
2. Ethical Issues and Values in Public Health
3. Possible Responses and Solutions to Public Health Problems
Health and Justice
1. An introduction
2. Socioeconomic Determinants of Health
3. Relevant Ethical Concepts
4. Health Systems and Public Health
Vulnerable Populations
Educator: Ms Mathavi Senguttuvan
1. Recognising and caring for vulnerable persons
2. Vulnerability in Law and Ethics
3. Conceptual Approaches to Vulnerability