The Consortium Ethics Program: an approach to establishing a permanent regional ethics network.
This paper describes the first three-year experience of the Consortium Ethics Program (CEP-1) of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Ethics, and also outlines plans for the second three-year phase (CEP-2) of this experiment in continuing ethics education. In existence since 1990, the CEP has the primary goal of creating a cost-effective, permanent ethics resource network, by utilizing the educational resources of a university bioethics center and the practical expertise of a regional hospital council. The CEP's conception and specific components stem from recognition of the need to make each hospital a major focus of educational efforts, and to provide academic support for the in-house activities of the representatives from each institution.
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Consortium Ethics Program, University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Ethics.
Aumann
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Kuczewski
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Medsger
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Meisel
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Parker
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Wicclair
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