Now Accepting Applications for the Summer 2012 Medical Explorations Program
Sample Summer Lecture Series
Location: HLVI Education Room A and B
The six week program begins every week at 8 a.m. with Dr. Goldman. The lecture series starts at 9 a.m. with speakers from different areas of the hospital. In addition, Dr. Annette Mendola presents a medical ethics lecture every Thursday morning from 8-9:30 a.m.
June 18
8:00 AM Mitchell Goldman, M.D. – Orientation
June 25
8:00 AM Mayor Bill Haslam
9:00 AM Mitchell Goldman, M.D.
July 2
8:00 AM Mitchell Goldman, M.D.
9:00 AM Lou Smith, M.D. – Medical Missionaries
July 4
4 th of July Holiday
July 9
8:00 AM Mitchell Goldman, M.D.
9:00 AM Tennessee Donor Services
July 16
8:00 a.m. Mitchell Goldman, M.D.
9:00 a.m. Jim London – What is Malpractice and What does it mean to Medicine?
July 23
8:00 AM Mitchell Goldman, M.D.
9:30 AM John Lacey, M.D. – KAPPA and Indigent Care
MEDICAL ETHICS LECTURES with Dr. Annette Mendola
EVERY THURSDAY FROM 8:00 - 9:30 AM – HLVI Education Room A and B
June 21: Doctor-Patient Relationship, part I
The role of ethics in medicine
Confidentiality and truth-telling
Patient and professional autonomy
Patients and families
June 28: The Ends of Medicine
Pain and suffering
Perfection (cosmetic surgery, personality-altering drugs, eugenics)
Life, vitalism, quality of life
Disability
July 5: Multiculturalism and Medicine
Communication
Differences in beliefs
Differences in values
July 12: Doctor-Patient Relationship, part II
Power and trust
Medical error
Medical marketing
July 19: Dealing with Death
Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide
July 26: Work, Success, and the Meaning of Life
Role of work in life, the nature of the work of medicine
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
The Medical Explorations Program
1924 Alcoa Highway,
Box U-11
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone:865-305-9294