Bioethics

Medical publishing: bias, conflict or interest and half of the truth, if you're lucky.

Ethical research with children: Children’s rights to participation and protection in research

If Religion is Good for Your Health, What Should Doctors Do About it? Spiritual care by clinicians needs to be grounded in holism rather than in the religion-health research if the integrity of religion is to be maintained.

Understanding our DNA- the impact and ethical considerations of the sequencing technology revolution

What are the legal responsibilities of a team doctor? What are the ethical responsibilities of a team doctor? How to reconcile these responsibilities in the context of contact or collision sport?

Do food marketing techniques influence eating behaviours? What is causing the rising rate of obesity? Who is in control of our waistline? This session explores the ethical issues of food marketing and eating behaviour.

Can We Cure Australia's Dismal Organ Donation Rates? The field of transplant ethics is a specialty within the practice of clinical ethics. The goals of transplant ethics are to promote the integrity of transplant medicine, and the welfare of living donors and organ recipients. Because organs are very scarce and a precious gift, transplant ethics aims for organ allocation to those with the capacity to benefit from it.

Medical mistakes are problems for everyone and managing them takes knowledge and empathy. Open disclosure of medical error is “the open discussion of incidents that result in harm to a patient while receiving health care.”

Advice about web marketing of clinical practices to learn safe (ethical) ways of advertising, promotion, and networking

Advance Care Planning is a process (not just a signature on a piece of paper) that allows a person to make and communicate – in advance – decisions about their medical and dental treatment for a future time in case they lose capacity. Ideally it involves a discussion between the person, their doctor and their carer/family/friends, about their values and wishes about end-of-life care , recording those decisions and appointing a substitute decision-maker to ensure their wishes are respected and to make decisions for anything not covered in the Advance Directive.

Have you ever been challenged by the topic of managing patients who are violent, aggressive, fleeing, threatening or abusive? Karen Nankervis explores alternate solutions to managing this behavior.

Can brain surgery cure addiction? Stimulating Debate on the Use of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Addiction.

Is there a place for herbal supplements, aromatherapy, hypnotherapy, acupuncture and other integrative therapies in medical practice? What are the legal and ethical complexities of adding non-traditional methods to traditional clinical care?

Guest speaker Dr Melissa Kendall from the Queensland Health Transitional Rehabilitation Program/Acquired Brain Injury Outreach Service discusses: Solving conflicts involving patient autonomy and best interests.

Sports doping has been in the news a lot lately and it continues to raise much debate. Whether you are an athlete, coach, trainer, physician, psychologist, lawyer or academic, you will find this seminar of interest. The session will cover: 1. To promote thought on total view of doping and banned practices in sport. 2. To raise ethical issues about the various health professionals implicated in doping and banned practices in sport. 3. To initiate discussion on recent disclosures and media events surrounding doping and banned practices in Australian sport.

Clinical Psychologist Lorraine Langsford presents a case study on the Psychological Considerations in the Adolescents Bariatric Population. Lorraine explores the prevalence of overweight children and adolescents obesity, associated Illnesses in adolescents, psychological consequences, family support and ethical issues.

Katrina Bramstedt identifies clinical areas where patient and family values can collide. Katrina also discusses the utility of a living will in care planning and family conversation, the ethical duty of surrogates and identifies appropriate situations for a clinical ethics consult.