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Syllabi: Medicine, Money and Morals: The Professional Promise of the Physician White Collar
INSTITUTION: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
PRESENTER: Brian Castellani, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, NEOUCOM
PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Martin Kohn, Ph.D., Director of the Human Values in Medicine Program (email: mfk@neoucom.EDU)
ENROLLMENT: BS/MD; selective; limit: 12
SEMESTER: Spring 2000
April 18, 20, 25, 27, May 2, 4, 9, 11 (Tuesday and Thursday afternoons,1:00 - 5:00 p.m.)
LEARNING GOALS: Students will 1) learn about the relationship medicine has with money and morality in the "real world" of today’s changing health care system, 2) practice employing a pragmatic approach to ethics in today’s changing health care system, 3) explore how career and lifestyle choices influence medical practice, and 4) gain a basic social history of medicine in the United States and the reasons why medicine is struggling with its present moral and professional crisis.
METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: There will be one assigned reading--a book--which students will be required to digest fully at a rate of "one chapter per class," and students will complete a "Physician Values In Practice Scale," which they will score and evaluate for themselves. What happens after that is up to the students.
OUTLINE:
Tuesday, April 18th: Durkheim and the Moral Promise of the Professions.
Thursday, April 20th: A History of the Physician White Collar.
Tuesday, April 25th: White Collar Politics, Economics, and Culture.
Thursday, April 27th: Managed Care and the Physician White Collar.
Tuesday, May 2nd: The Professional Decentralization of the Physician White Collar.
Thursday, May 4th: Narrative Dysfunction: Medicine’s Untreated Social Disease.
Tuesday, May 9th: Perception Versus Reality: Negotiating the Clash Between Medicine and Managed Care
Thursday, May 11th: A Pragmatist’s Solution--The Physician White Collar, Morality and Managed Care
REQUIREMENTS: Attendance is mandatory and so is participation.
HVM CREDITS: 20