Converging Roads: Where Health Care Ethics and Medicine Converge

Converging Roads: Where Health Care Ethics and Medicine Converge is organized by St. John Paul II Foundation and will be held on Mar 16, 2019 at Notre Dame Seminary Graduate School of Theology, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Course Description:
Where Health Care Ethics and Medicine Converge
Converging Roads is a regional conference series offering continuing education for health care professionals that equips them to practice the highest ethical and medical standards of their profession. Converging Roads provides health care professionals, chaplains, students, and administrators with the most up-to-date training in health care ethics enabling them to more effectively care for their patients. An initiative of the St. John Paul II Foundation, Converging Roads is deeply rooted in the Catholic moral tradition and is presented in multiple local or regional conferences. Health care professionals receive continuing medical education credits, insight from national level speakers, and the opportunity for networking with local health care professionals.

Conference Objectives are:
Discuss the true meaning of freedom according to the classical ethical tradition.
• Describe a well-formed conscience and the basic human right to discharge one’s conscience.
• Identify threats to conscience faced by medical professionals today.
• Identify protections and legal rights of medical professionals in the face of threats to the right to serve.
• Discuss the legal trends of physician assisted suicide in the U.S. and Louisiana.
• Identify ways the medical community can address physician assisted suicide in their respective areas of medicine.
• Describe the ethical dimensions involved in Physician Assisted Suicide for the health care professional and what is medically
inappropriate.
• Identify physician assisted suicide as a symptom of the problem of secular medical ethics and a result of post-Hippocratic medicine.
• Describe the medical options for a family struggling with infertility.
• Discuss the emotional and psychological suffering associated with infertility.
• Identify best practices for medical treatment, psycho-social support, and intervention on behalf of patients.
• Discuss the meaning and purpose of suffering and how to help patients mature through suffering.