Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series
Medical ‘Decision Making’: New Directions Based on an Alternative View of Language
Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Associated Faculty, Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Clapp is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care and Medical Ethics & Health Policy and Associated Faculty in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a linguistic and medical anthropologist who combines qualitative methods with theory from the social sciences and philosophy to examine issues in medical ethics, healthcare communication, and health services. Dr. Clapp used this approach to study medical decision making in surgery and intensive care, interprofessional communication in the ICU, clinical reasoning about enrolling patients in randomized trials, relations between IRBs and investigators, and efforts by biomedical scientists to engage communities about their work, among other topics.
Tuesday, March 7th
4:00-5:00 p.m. ET
Hybrid Webinar
BC-4118, 4th Floor, One Brigham Circle, 1620 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Presented in Collaboration with the Division of Trauma, Burn, and Surgical Critical Care
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Characterize the assumptions about language and social interaction underlying the most prominent models of decision making in health services research and medical ethics
- Understand the basics of an alternative theory of language with roots in linguistic anthropology and philosophy of language
- Identify the implications of this alternative view of language for reconceptualizing medical ‘decisions’
Target Audience
This activity is intended for research faculty and trainees
Course Director
Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, FACS
Michele and Howard J. Kessler Distinguished Chair of Surgery and Public Health
Kessler Director, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director, Center for Geriatric Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
ACCREDITATION
In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
