Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s), 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
This program will expire and must be completed by 07/29/27.
*** Please note this program was a part of the VOC 2024. You will not want to choose this program if you completed this individual program as part of the VOC 2024. ***
In this presentation, Dr. Hearn will discuss the importance of medical ethics for physicians. He will also discuss the core principles of medical ethics and the challenges and dilemmas that physicians face. Lastly, Dr. Hearn will share his ideas on how physicians can promote ethics personally and in their practice.
Learning Objectives:
• Learners will become familiar with the birth of bioethics and its scope as a discipline.
• Learners will become familiar with the major moral principles comprising the analytical tool known as “principlism” and its inherent weaknesses when applied to the resolution of complex bioethical dilemmas.
• Learners will become acquainted with some of the areas of focus in the field of bioethics. Learners will be provided with a possible substitute to principlism referred to as “ethical pluralism”.
• Learners will be exposed to the manner in which technical advances will create additional ethical challenges.
• Learners will become acquainted with the bioethical questions that might be expected to arise in the future.
Accreditation Statement:
The Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (MAOPS) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. MAOPS designates this program for a maximum of 1 AOA Category 1-A CME Credit(s) and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation.
The Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (MAOPS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (MAOPS) designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)ä. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Planning Disclosure:
The Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons Education Planning Committee has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.
Grievance Policy:
All grievances should be in writing and should specify the nature of the grievance. Initially, all grievances should be directed to the MAOPS Executive Director, who will then forward said grievance to the Education & Convention Committee. All grievances will receive an initial response in writing within 30 days of receipt. If the participant does not receive a satisfactory response, then they can then submit a complaint in writing to the Bureau of Osteopathic Education of the AOA at 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.
| Ethics in Medicine- Navigating the Contemporary Landscape (7.7 MB) | 66 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Dr. James Hearn is an Assistant Bioethics professor at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Joplin, Missouri. He is a graduate of the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California. He then obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law in San Diego, California. Dr. Hearn earned a second LL.M. in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Negotiation Theory from the Straus Institute at the Pepperdine School of Law in Malibu, California. Dr. Hearn received his Master of Theology degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and his Diploma in Anglican Studies and Doctor of Ministry from Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, where his doctoral work focused on the area of pastoral bioethics. He has a second doctorate in bioethics from Loyola University – Chicago. The focus of this doctoral work was on the creation of a system of triage protocols and ethical resource allocation guidelines to be employed in the case of viral pandemics. In addition, he has a Master's in Public Health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was able to continue his work in the ethics of pandemics.
Dr. Hearn has served as a mediator for the Federal District Court in Los Angeles and is licensed to practice in California and Missouri. At the Straus Institute, his work focused on the mediation of end-of-life disputes, and his research included spending a year mediating such disputes in the ICU of a local hospital. In 2020, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Church in North America and, until leaving Los Angeles, served as an assisting priest at All Saints Cathedral in Long Beach, California. In February 2021, he was named the Canon to the Ordinary, making him the assistant to the Bishop of the Diocese of Western Anglicans. He also served as the Chancellor (legal advisor) to the Bishop and the Diocese. Dr. Hearn was also a partner in and served as general counsel to a real estate development and investment firm based in Century City, Los Angeles, which he joined in 2007 after 20 years in private legal practice.
Dr. Hearn has a variety of teaching experiences. He was a Lecturer in the Health Sciences Department at California State University, Northridge, for 16 years. He taught various courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including courses in death and dying, bioethics, and healthcare law. Dr. Hearn taught at the Bioethics Center at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He taught courses in bioethics mediation, bioethics, the law, and bioethics and religion at Loyola. Additionally, he taught in the Patient Advocacy Program offered through the UCLA Extension Program. Prior to leaving Los Angeles, he was also teaching bioethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
Dr. Hearn has spoken in the United States, Canada, and Israel. He has published on various topics, including the ethics of pandemics, disaster ethics, social utility and bioethics, research ethics, the Hippocratic Oath, and medical school bioethics curriculum. His research interests include clinical ethics and the impact of the "hidden curriculum" on graduate medical bioethics training, research ethics (especially the studies conducted on the African continent), public health ethics, and the development of a discipline that could truly be called "pastoral" bioethics.
Dr. Hearn discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients relative to the content of this presentation.