06.11.2025 Online
Webinar
The Not So Obvious Benefits of Ethics Committees: What Is Lost Without Them
Time: Thursday, November 6, 2025, 15:00–16:15 CET (UTC+1)
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Organisation: Clinical Ethics Unit, University Hospital Basel, in cooperation with the Institute for Biomedical Ethics (IBMB), University of Basel, and the European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics (EACME)
A functioning ethics committee provides education, policy development and review, and ethics consultation. Struggling ethics committees can pose ongoing challenges for their members and hospital leadership and some have called to disband such committees and shift the work entirely to full-time clinical ethicists. There are downsides to this model and the more subtle benefits of sustaining these committees should be considered. In her presentation, Prof. Wasson will explore the importance of ethics committees in contributing to professional formation, providing a set time and place for critical reflection on one’s own ethics consultation practice, and prevention of „mission drift“. The reach of an ethics committee and its members should not be underestimated or undervalued.
Katherine Wasson, is a Professor in The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago and the Director of the Bioethics and Professionalism Honors Program. She served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and is currently the treasurer. She is also a Co-Director of the International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation (ICCEC).
Registration is not required.
For more information, please visit: https://www.unispital-basel.ch/medizinische-direktion/klinische-ethik/Veranstaltungen/webinar_wasson
Join the Webinar: https://unibas.zoom.us/j/64562254190?pwd=bD9rASVpBuoM2jpuH6z6sc5Dm8pD0s.1

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Ethik in der Medizin

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Ethik in der Medizin