While Dr. Folsom's class was focused on practical skills, "Ethics and Professionalism in Childhood Teaching" exemplified the research-and-theory wing of education.
Life-skills education can help develop these skills and teach adolescents about citizenship, work skills, ethics, parenting and caregiving.
The skills considered more important were communication skills, ethics, conflict resolution, time management, managed care, management principles, coding and billing, quality improvement, public speaking and risk management.
The vertical module called 'professional development' integrated communication skills, practical clinical skills, ethics and law, health promotion, community-oriented medicine and evaluation of evidence.
A program was developed by the authors to include the common clinical scenarios identified in addition to topics thought to be difficult or 'tricky' by local students including safe prescribing skills, ethics and other speciality areas less frequently encountered such as ophthalmology and dermatology.
Important principles and competencies are also addressed, including consultation and communication skills, ethics, professionalism and human rights, evidence-based practice, family-orientated care, personal and human growth and development, community-orientated care, chronic care, health promotion and disease prevention, management and administration, teaching, education and research [ 42].
Clearly it is powerful and is also potentially dangerous if used without skill, ethics or discipline.
At the University of Pittsburgh, neuroscientist Michael Zigmond and colleague Beth Fischer run the Survival Skills and Ethics Program.
Michael Zigmond and Beth Fischer travel the country teaching survival skills and ethics to scientists. .
She plans to set up a survival skills and ethics course for grad students at UVM.
Beth Fischer runs the "Survival Skills and Ethics Program" at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, which was begun by neuroscientist Michael Zigmond.
