Ethics in Healthcare 2027 A One-Day Conference for Collaborative Dialogue and Inter-Professional Exchange

Friday, May 28, 2027, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM, * Other, Iowa City, IA

Each session will be 90 minutes (a 60-minute lecture with audience interaction followed by a 30-minute Q&A between the speaker and learners). All sessions will be in Room 2117 of the Medical Education Research Facility (MERF).

For conference registration questions contact: 
Suzanne Gurnett Streitz, BA
Conference Coordinator
Program in Bioethics and Humanities
319.335.6706 • [email protected]

For detailed conference information and to register visit the Ethics in Healthcare 2027 Conference Website

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.00 hours), AAPA Category 1 CME credit (6.00 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (6.00 hours), ASWB Ethics CE Credit (6.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (6.00 hours)

1. Define institutional ethics with a focus on the healthcare workplace.
2. Identify the intersection between institutional ethics and employee interactions.
3. Analyze tools and systems designed to facilitate ethical interactions in the workplace.
4. Evaluate opportunities for integrating AI into clinical ethics consultation.
5. Appraise risks of using AI tools to support or conduct ethics consultation.
6. Synthesize data on the use of AI in clinical ethics consultation.
7. Describe how patient autonomy should be combined with the care team’s assessment of beneficence and non-maleficence.
8. Distinguish between ‘positive’ vs ‘negative’ autonomy.
9. Identify ways to enhance rapport and shared decision making with patients and families during a fluctuating clinical course.
10. Define narrative ethics, narrative medicine, and narrative competence.
11. Apply concepts from narrative ethics to clinical cases and evaluate its utility in addressing ethical challenges in healthcare.
12. Compare and contrast narrative ethics with other ethical frameworks and recognize their interdependence.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Physician Associate: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nurse: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine designates this activity for a maximum of 6.00 ANCC contact hours.

Social Worker: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 6.00 ethics continuing education credit(s).

Other Health Care Provider: A certificate of participation will be available after successful completion of an online evaluation. It is the responsibility of the licensees to determine if this continuing education activity meets the requirements of their professional licensure board.

DISCLOSURE POLICY: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.