Office of Medical Education

Contemporary Ethical Issues in Clinical Medicine - Pediatrics 

L3 Clerkships

Amy Prudhomme, DO
Clerkship Director, Pediatrics
 

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

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

Clerkship includes six existing cases for discussion. In addition:

1. Youth Concussion Act
2. Minor Consent
3. Child Abuse & LA Reporting Laws
4. Nutrition
5. Louisiana Laws - Immunizations
6. Pediatric Hospice
7. Substance Exposed Newborns

Youth Concussion Act

• Read LRS 40:1089 (Youth Concussion Act) 
• Take Youth Concussion Act Quiz

Minor Consent

• Read Minor Consent
• Take Minor Consent Quiz

Child Abuse & Reporting Laws

• Read What To Do when It Might Be Child Abuse from Virtual Mentor, February 2009
  • http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2008/02/ccas2-0802.html
• Read To Report or Not Report: A Physician’s Dilemma from Virtual mentor, February 2009
  • http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2008/02/pfor1-0802.html

LA Child Abuse Reporting Laws

• Childrens Codes
  • CHC 603 Part 17 – 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://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2009/02/ccas3-0902.html
  • Take Teen Violence Quiz

Nutrition

• Nutrition Module

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

Pediatric Hospice

• Read Everyday Ethics In The PICU: Living and Dying In The "Gray Area" from ChiPPS Pediatric Palliative Care Newsletter, no. 22 (February 2011): 13-16
• Read NHPCO's Facts and Figures from The National Hospice and Pallative Care Organzation
• Take Pediatric Hospice Quiz

Substance Exposed Newborns

• Read Substance Exposed Newborns
• Take Substance Exposed Newborns Quiz