This online CME accredited course explores common ethical dilemmas in medicine. Medical Professionals can earn up to five CME credits per module in this series. Each module in Medicine, Culture, and Ethics surveys ethical dimensions of medical practice and the traditional Jewish perspective on the issues. Doctors will gain a cultural sensitivity that will enhance their interaction with Jewish patients and their clergy. Topics include: Patient Autonomy, Organ Transplants, Experimental Treatments, Reproduction and Infertility, Mental Disabilities and Patient Confidentiality.
Accreditation Statement
This activity is jointly sponsored by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), New York Medical College and Touro College
No commercial support has been received for this activity.
Date of Original Release:
November 28, 2011
Dates Valid for CME Credit:
November 28, 2011 through November 27, 2013
Activity Goal:
To help medical professionals develop greater sensitivity to Jewish culture and how Jewish traditions effect Jewish patients’ medical decisions and their interactions with the health care system. Practitioners will be better equipped to communicate with and deliver a greater quality of care to Jewish patients.
Target Audience:
Medical Practitioners
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council For Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of New York Medical College and The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. New York Medical College is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
New York Medical College designates this Enduring material for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The estimated time to complete this activity is five hours: 2.5 hours for Part A and 2.5 hours for Part B.
Up to 5 CME credits total (2.5 for each part) can be earned from this activity.
Faculty
Chana Silberstein, PhD,
Director of Curriculum Development, JLI
Education Director, Chabad at Cornell University
Leah-Perl Shollar, MS Ed
Instructor, JLI
The Planning Committee for this activity included Dr. Anthony Polemeni, Touro College, Rabbi Efraim Mintz and Mindy Wallach of JLI and Kathy Kavanagh and Margaret Astrologo of New York Medical College.
All activity faculty and planners participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by New York Medical College are expected to disclose to the audience any significant support or substantial relationship(s) with providers of commercial products and/or devices discussed in their presentation and/or with any commercial supporters of the activity. In addition, all faculty are expected to openly disclose any off-label, experimental, or investigational use of drugs or devices discussed in their presentations.
The activity faculty and planning committee members have no significant relationships to disclose.
Course Format:
This activity is available as online enduring material.
Participants are required to respond to online questionnaires upon concluding Part A and Part B of this activity and a course evaluation at the conclusion of the activity. It is required that 75% of the questions on the questionnaires are answered correctly to pass.
Medical practitioners wishing to receive credit for this activity must:
- Read the course text and listen and view the audio-visual aids
- Relate the content material to the objectives
- Complete the Self-Assessment Questions and receive a score of at least 75%
- Participants may choose to submit the Self-Assessment questions for just Part A or just Part B for partial credit (2.5 credits per part).
Contact Information:
Mrs. Leah P. Shollar
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Technical and Administrative Assistance
Mrs. Mindy Wallach
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Copyright Information
Produced and Copyrighted 2011 by
The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute
822 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11213
All rights reserved.
No part of the contents of this activity may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission of the producer.
