36th Annual MacLean Center Conference

Chicago, IL US
November 8, 2024 to November 9, 2024
Join us for this premiere medical ethics conference!

Enhance your ability to navigate complex ethical challenges in healthcare at this preeminent conference, designed for physicians and healthcare professionals committed to improving patient outcomes through ethical decision-making. Engage with thought leaders through expert lectures, dynamic panel discussions, and collaborative sessions. This year's program offers an in-depth exploration of key ethical issues in clinical medicine, including informed consent, healthcare disparities, and the evolving dynamics of the patient-physician relationship.
 
Equip yourself with actionable strategies to address ethical dilemmas in your practice and elevate the standard of care you provide. Register today!

Target Audience

This activity is designed for physicians and other healthcare professionals interested in clinical medical ethics.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the ethical situations or conflicts in routine clinical encounters;
  • Consider the various perspectives, including legal, medical, and religious, needed to provide holistic patient care;
  • Discuss how clinical medical ethics applies broadly to the American healthcare system and specifically to their fields or specialties;
  • Describe how current literature and directives in clinical medical ethics will help them make improved ethics decisions in their practice;
  • Explain how to apply the tenets of clinical medical ethics to scenarios they encounter in their fields or specialties.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
Systems-based Practice
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Haley Beck
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
(773) 702-3247
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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 12.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 12.50 Participation
  • 12.50 Social Work CEU
Event starts: 
11/08/2024 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
11/09/2024 - 5:15pm
Activity opens: 
08/12/2024
Activity expires: 
02/09/2025
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S DuSable Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
HYBRID MEETING
Learners can participate in this conference in person or virtually. For more information, contact Meeting Achievements via e-mail.
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
Dine beside a World War II German submarine. Stand inside a 40-foot tornado. Mingle below historic aircraft. Celebrate the sweet things in a classic ice cream parlor. Just steps from Lake Michigan and minutes from downtown Chicago, MSI is the largest science museum in the Western hemisphere and is housed in the only remaining structure from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. With thousands of exhibits, artifacts, and “wow” moments that last a lifetime, MSI is the premier destination for unique and engaging special events.
PARKING
Parking will be available at the museum for $12/day. If you stay for dinner on Friday evening, parking will be free.
HOTEL
SOPHY UChicago Friends & Family (15% Discount)
Sophisticated and eclectic, the SOPHY® Hotel embodies the crafts and passions of art, science, literature, and music that are the inspiration of today's Hyde Park, Chicago luxury hotel. A new boutique hotel in Hyde Park, SOPHY® Hotel infuses the community's academic and artistic contributions, allowing the curious visitor to delight in discoveries at every turn from arrival to departure.
          1.   Book online via the Friends & Family Booking Link. Enter preferred dates of stay and click ‘Check Availability.’
          2.   Book by phone at 1.773.289.1003. Request rate code UNCH.

Hyatt Place Chicago South UChicago Friends & Family (15% Discount)
Experience the senses of Hyde Park during your stay at Hyatt Place Chicago-South/University Medical Center. Visit the University of Chicago and Medical Center; Explore the Museum of Science and Industry; Attend the David Rubenstein Forum; Feel the Court Theater; and Savor Award Winning Restaurants. Find your home away from home at the Hyatt Place Chicago-South.
          1.   Book online via the Friends & Family Booking Link. Enter preferred dates of stay and click ‘Check Availability.’
          2.   Book by phone at (888) 591-1234. Request rate code CR58415.
VISITING CHICAGO
Chicago has something to offer for everyone! To help plan your stay, visit choosechicago.com.
 
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact our office via email at haley.beck@bsd.uchicago.edu.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COURSE DIRECTOR
  Peter Angelos, MD, PhD
  Linda Kohler Anderson Professor of Surgery
  Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
  Chief of Endocrine Surgery
  Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Ethics


 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Social Worker Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor through the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and will offer continuing education units for the 36th Annual MacLean Center Conference for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.

12.5 social work continuing education units are provided for this live activity.
 
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board. 
 
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
HOW TO REGISTER
Please log in or create an account to register. Once logged in, select the appropriate registration fee and click "Register Now!". To receive the early registration rate, enter the early registration discount code during registration. For additional assistance, click PDF icon here.
 

IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL REGISTRATION FEES
 
Profession TypeEarly Registration
(Ends 9/30)
DISCOUNT CODERegular Registration
(After 9/30)
General$200MCE24$250
MacLean Fellow Alumni--$150
MacLean Faculty--$100
Residents/Fellows--$75
Students--$50
 
CANCELLATION POLICY: If you cancel your participation in this conference, your registration fee less a 50% administrative fee will be refunded when written notification is received by October 8, 2024. No refunds will be made after October 8, 2024.
 

OPTIONAL DINNER
Don't miss the opportunity to register for dinner at the bottom of the checkout screen once you click "Register Now" below!
 
Profession TypeFEE
All (In Person)$65

 

CLAIMING CREDIT
At the end of the activity, the credit-claiming process will unlock. Return to this page and click on "Complete Activity" to proceed.
Please Note: Requests to claim AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ after three months will be subject to additional fees.
 
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