Facilitator Guide

Part Six - Forming New Partnerships with Health Care Organizations and Providers

VIDEO SEGMENT, 13:21 MINUTES

Facilitator Role:

• Welcomes participants to the session; asks participants to introduce themselves
• Distributes any handout materials
• Invites all to join in the opening prayer
• Reminds participants that reading the ERDs in advance is helpful.
• Introduces and plays the video Part Six
• Dr. Ron Hamel  – Introductory Comments
• Voices from Catholic Health Care
• Dr. Ron Hamel – Summary and Concluding Comments
• Debriefs by asking: What is your strongest impression of the thoughts expressed in the video? Do you have other observations or questions?

Case Studies:

#1 Employed Physicians and Contraception
#2 Catholic Management of a City Hospital
#3 Partnering in a New Venture
#4 Physicians Working for Planned Parenthood
#5 Partnering with the Alzheimer’s Association
#6 Partnering with other Long Term Care Organizations

• Chooses one or more of the case studies for discussion, assigning them to the whole group or sub-groups. Asks participants to consider these questions as they discuss the case studies:
1. What ethical issues do you see here?
2. Which Directive(s) apply to the case?
3. How might the Directive(s) help address the case?
• Debriefs the discussions, inviting participants to report their observations and insights.
• Asks: Please give some examples of how the Directives in Part Six guide the delivery of care in our organization.
• Asks: Now that you are more familiar with the ERDs, how do you anticipate using them as a resource in your practice of medicine?

Summary and Conclusion

We hope you found this educational resource helpful.

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