Medical Ethics Preparation

Service Description

Ethics questions are often vexing to students preparing for medical school interviews. To effectively understand how to respond to various common and uncommon scenarios, once must have a basic understanding of the tenets of medical ethics and how they apply to real-world situations which doctors encounter. This service aims to provide you with a review of basic ethic principles and a few selected AMA Ethics topics which present common dilemmas for physicians. While a single session is helpful, utilizing the Ethics Package of 5 sessions will ensure a more comprehensive review of key areas including Physician-Patient relationships, Informed Consent, Decision-Making Capacity, Social Media and Professionalism, Privacy in Healthcare, DNAR order, Withholding/withdrawal of Life Support, Physician-assisted suicide (medically assisted suicide) and Impairment in Physicians.