Anti-ableism in medical education; impact forum; improving trust in science
March 14, 2024
Anti-Ableism in Medical Education: Meeting the Challenges Issue brief provides strategic recommendations.
Few health care institutions have made significant changes to the ways medical students and trainees are taught to think about disability and provide care to patients with disabilities. But given the well-documented health disparities, barriers to access, and discrimination that disabled people face while interfacing with the U.S. health care system, institutions of medical education have an ethical imperative to equip professionals-in-training with the tools to recognize and intervene upon those harms. A new Hastings Center issue brief offers strategic recommendations for medical educators and institutions to pursue in developing a more disability-conscious curriculum. Read more.
Inside the Lake Nona Impact Forum Q & A with Vardit Ravitsky
Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky spoke at the 12th annual Lake Nona Impact Forum, a three-day event that aspires to build “the Wellbeing Ecosystem of the Future, by exploring the intersections of health, wellness, medical and scientific innovation and strategies to optimize human performance.” Invited speakers included international leaders and innovators in a wide range of domains: medicine and media, government and industry, and technology and academia. Ravitsky spoke at the panel discussion on “AI in Healthcare: Opportunities, Challenges and Ethical Implications.” She discussed takeaways from the AI panel, and from the Impact Forum in general. (The event was not open to the public, and panels were not recorded.) Read more.
Improving Trust in Science Ideas from The Hastings Center-Knight Science Journalism webinar
Public trust in science had been declining for years and it took a steep dive during the Covid-19 pandemic. What will it take to build back trust? Getting the facts right when communicating about science is a start, but it’s not enough—that was a key takeaway from a webinar produced by The Hastings Center and the Knight Science Journalism Program @ MIT on March 6, with bioethicist Lauren Taylor of NYU, scientist Christopher Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and MIT, and journalist Nicholas St. Fleur of STAT, moderated by Hastings Center fellow John Evans of University of California, San Diego. What’s also needed is better communication about what scientists value—what matters to them. Scientists themselves can convey this information when they speak about their work in public and in interviews with journalists. Watch “In Science We Trust?”
The Future of Bioethics, a talk by Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. March 21.
Ethical Aspects of AI in Biomedical Research: The Example of the Bridge 2AI Initiative, a talk by Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky, The Merrimon Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. March 22.
Supporting Aging Through Housing: Engaging the Imagination of Policymakers and Publics, a talk by Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger, the American Society on Aging, San Francisco. March 27.
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