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Clinical ethics events

Clinical ethics: events, training opportunities and support services.

The Clinical Ethics Committee (CEC) offers employees of the hospital the opportunity to acquire and deepen ethical competencies in its regular continuing education event, the Clinical Ethics Forum.

You can find current events in our event calendar and past events in the event archive:

Clinical ethics events

Events

News
April 22, 2024 Building a house without foundations? A 24-country qualitative interview study on artificial intelligence in intensive care medicine Participants had generally positive views about the potential use of AI in ICUs but also reported some well-known concerns about the use of AI in clinical practice and important technical and non-technical barriers to the implementation of AI. Important differences existed between ICUs regarding their current readiness to implement AI.
March 20, 2024 New Nature article on Federal Learning In their new article published by Nature, authors Marieke Bak, Vince I. Madai, Leo Anthony Celi, Georgios A. Kaissis, Ronald Cornet, Menno Maris, Daniel Rueckert, Alena Buyx and Stuart McLennan argue that although federated learning is often seen as a promising solution to allow AI innovation while addressing privacy concerns, this technology does not fix all underlying data ethics concerns. Benefiting from federated learning in digital health requires acknowledgement of its limitations.
February 13, 2024 Swiss residents' information behavior perceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal qualitative study People's information behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic was challenged through vast amounts of information, misinformation, and disinformation. This study sets out to address the research gap of longitudinal, qualitative inquiries about how people's information behavior changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to assess how residents of German-speaking Switzerland perceived and evaluated information gathering during a global health crisis.
January 16, 2024 A breathing space for the planet: COVID-19 as an opportunity to rethink human-nature relationships At the beginning of 2020, life came to a kind of standstill. Around the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered radical changes in people's lives. The rapid reduction in mobility and the resulting decrease in fossil fuel consumption and noise pollution led to short-term environmental improvements worldwide. Our research findings, which we briefly present here in this blog, show that people believed the pandemic could mean a moment of recovery for the planet.
January 10, 2024 Solidarity is based on reciprocity: How solidarity changed during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany The publication by Franziska Schönweitz and Bettina Zimmermann in BMC Public Health is embedded in the SolPan ("Solidarity in Times of a Pandemic") Research Commons. Co-authors are Nora Hangel, Amelia Fiske, Stuart McLennan, Anna Sierawska and Alena Buyx.
November 7, 2023 Vulnerability and Response-Ability in the Pandemic Marketplace: Developing an Ethic of Care for Provisioning in Crisis Through close analysis of a large set of in-depth interview data collected in four countries (Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the UK) at two intervals during the pandemic (spring and autumn 2020), this study highlights care as a practical ethos in practices of provisioning.
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Ethics training for employees:

The CEC welcomes the training of employees for ethics consultation in healthcare. If you are interested, please contact the office of the Clinical Ethics Committee.

Contact and coordination of requests


Kathrin Knochel, MD, Senior Physician for Clinical Ethics
Tel. 089 / 4140 – 4041 (Office)
Tel. 089 / 4140 – 7255 (Clinical Inquiries)
Email: klinische.ethik@mri.tum.de

Contact

The Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine welcomes your contact.

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