How Do I Determine if my Patient has Capacity to Make Medical Decisions?

Assessing Decision Making Capacity
June 14, 2008

The right of patients to control their medical care is central to medical ethics. Yet, many patients suffer from conditions that impair their ability to exercise that right. This workshop is designed to improve skills of diagnosing such impairments and ways of dealing with them that respect the rights and dignity of patients.

The Summer Workshop in Clinical Ethics will be held on June 14, 2008 at the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco. This annual one-day workshop provides an intensive, interactive introduction to the analysis of ethical problems in clinical care. The workshop is directed to physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, attorneys, teachers and other professionals involved in the care of patients or the education of providers.

Download the brochure here!

Schedule
Saturday, June 14, 9:00-5:00

8:30-9:00
Registration

9:00-10:00
Medical & Psychiatric Backgrounds for Deficits in Decision-Making; Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD

10:00-10:15
Break

10:15-11:15
Clinical Assessment of Incapacity: The Clinical Ethicist's Role; Katrina Bramstedt, PhD

11:15-12:30
Two Difficult Cases: Panel & Discussion

12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:30
Appropriate Ethical-Legal Management of Patients with Diminished Capacity; Kate Ettinger, JD

2:30-2:45
Break

2:45-3:45
The Unrepresented Patient: Who Decides?; Douglas White, MD

3:45-4:45
Two Difficulty Cases: Panel & Discussion

4:45-5:45
Closing & Evaluations


Faculty
Albert Jonsen, Ph.D.
Senior Ethics Scholar-in-Residence
California Pacific Medical Center

Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Washington, School of Medicine

Douglas White, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Katrina Bramstedt, PhD
Clinical Ethicist
California Pacific Medical Center

Katharine Ettinger, JD
CPMC Ethics Consultant


6.0 hours Continuing Education credits available for:
• Medicine
• Nursing
• SW (Board of Behavioral Science Examiners #PCE 2245)
• Chaplains


Tuition is $130 per person. Please make checks payable to CPMC Program in Medicine & Human Values and send to Antonio Kruger, 2395 Sacramento Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115.

Space is limited. To register, use the form(s) below. Call (415) 600-1647 with questions.

Workshop Registration Form

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