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Contemporary Ethical Issues in Clinical Medicine - Pediatrics
L3 Clerkships 2011-2012

Joanne Cain Marier JD
Director, Program Health Law & Medical Ethics

Robin English, MD,
Amy Creel, MD

Clerkship Directors, Pediatrics

8 weeks (Student discussion existing 6 forums + Three Topics +LA Laws)

Clerkship includes six existing cases for discussion. In addition:
  1. Preventing disease in children
  2. Neonatal Intensive Care
  3. Child Abuse & LA Reporting Laws
  4. Teen Violence
  5. Louisiana Laws - Immunizations

Preventing Disease in Children

Read Uncertainties in the Absence of Data: Use of Pravastatin in Young Children from Virtual Mentor, November 2008
           http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/11/pfor1-0811.html

Take Preventing Disease in Children Quiz

Neonatal Intensive Care

Read Physician and Parental Decision Making in Newborn Resuscitation from Virtual Mentor, October 2008
          http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/10/ccas1-0810.html

Read Can Rule-Based Ethics Help in the NICU? from Virtual Mentor, October 2008
           http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/10/ccas2-0810.html

Read The Cost of Saving the Tiniest Lives: NICUs versus Prevention from Virtual Mentor, October 2008
           http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/10/pfor1-0810.html

Take Neonatal Intensive Care Quiz

Child Abuse & Reporting Laws

Read What To Do when It Might Be Child Abuse from Virtual Mentor, February 2009
              http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/02/ccas2-0802.html

Read To Report or Not Report: A Physician’s Dilemma from Virtual mentor, February 2009
              http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/02/pfor1-0802.html

LA Child Abuse Reporting Laws

Childrens Codes

CHC 603 Part 15 – Mandatory Reporting
CHC 609 Parts A & B – Reporting
CHC 610 Part A – Reporting Procedure

Revised Statutes

RS 14:403 Part A 1 – Failure to Report

Take Child Abuse & Reporting Laws Quiz

Teen Violence

Read Youth Violence: Effective Screening and Prevention from Virtual Mentor, February 2009
              http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2009/02/ccas3-0902.html

Take Teen Violence Quiz

Louisiana Laws - Immunizations

Revised Statutes

RS 17:170 Parts A 1 a, A 2, E & F - Immunization of persons entering schools
RS 17:170.4 Parts A 1 a, A 1 b, B 1, B 2, B 3 - Immunization against Meningococcal Disease
RS 40:31.16 Part A 2 - Parental consent for treatment and release

Take Louisiana Laws - Immunizations Quiz

 

 


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