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Upcoming Medical Education Events

August 17, 2021

Program for Humanities in Medicine

September 23, 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Thomas P. Duffy Lecture

Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent

Round-table discussion with Harriet Washington and Joanna Radin, PhD, moderated by Randi Epstein, MD, MPH

Harriet Washington is a National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, Writing Fellow in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, and Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, as well as the author of numerous books.

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To receive notifications about future Program for Humanities in Medicine events, please email Karen Kolb at
Karen.Kolb@Yale.edu.



Program for Biomedical Ethics

October 6, 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Avoiding Your Hospital Futility Policy

Joseph J. Fins, MD, MACP, FRCP

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October 20, 2021, 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Family-Pediatrician Disagreements in the Age of Social Media

Amy E. Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS, HEC-C

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To receive notifications about future Program for Biomedical Ethics events, please email Karen Kolb at
Karen.Kolb@Yale.edu.



Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

September 15, 9:00 – 11:00 am

Medical Library Meet and Greet

Interested in learning more about what the medical library can do for you? Whether it’s setting up citation alerts for your papers or accessing journals off campus, we’re here to help! Stop by the medical library entrance on September 15 from 9:00 am – 11:00 am to find out more.



YSM Teaching and Learning Center

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Care and the Learning Environment: A two-part series co-hosted by the YSM Teaching and Learning Center and the Section of General Internal Medicine.

Thursday, September 23, 12:00 to 1:00 pm

Part 1 - The State of Diversity in the Health Care Workforce: Past, Present and Future

Dowin Boatright, MD, MBA, MHS facilitates this session.

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Thursday, October 28, 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Part 2 – Workshop: Practical Tips to Address Bias and Discrimination In our Learning Environment

Dowin Boatright, MD, MBA, MHS, and Inginia Genao, MD, co-facilitate this session.

Click this link to register for this virtual event. This link provides more details.

Submitted by Abigail Roth on August 16, 2021