New Pharmacy Residency at Regions

Did you know Regions is getting a new residency program? The pharmacy will be starting a one-year post-graduate residency program, with the first residents beginning in July. The program will include 2 residents each year. The pharmacy program will have required rotations in critical care and general medicine and possible electives in a number of other areas, including cardiology, infectious disease, neurology and many others. For more information about the program contact the residency program director, Lori Amborn.

Ethics Grand Rounds - March 8, 2011

HealthPartners and Regions Hospital

Quarterly Ethics Grand Rounds

Open to all HealthPartners and Regions staff

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Auditorium @ Regions Hospital

Lunch provided

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“Doctor, please won’t you assist me in dying?”

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Objectives:
• To understand current medical, legal and ethical end of life medical decision making
• To integrate above concepts to help patients and families make patient centered choices
• To utilize a framework for guiding surrogate health care decision makers


Accreditation


Physician
HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Nurses
This program has been designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing's criteria for 1.2 contact hours of required continuing education. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine whether a continuing education activity meets the criteria established by the Minnesota Board of Nursing.
Continuing Education certificates will be available for all other disciplines.


2011 Quarterly Ethics Grand Rounds, noon to 1pm in the Regions Hospital Auditorium
Date, Speaker, Topic
June 14, TBD, Deciding for Others: Models for Decision-Making
September 13, TBD, The Law and Bioethics
December 13, TBD, Bioethics and Culture
contacts:
Don Postema, Chair, HealthPartners Ethics Committee Postema@Comcast.net
Lisa Watson, Chair, HealthPartners/Regions Hospital Ethics Consult Team Lisa.A.Watson@HealthPartners.com