The Clinical Ethics stream brings together all those involved in thinking about and addressing the ethical issues that arise in the provision of healthcare. This includes academics, healthcare professionals, members of clinical ethics committees and those who are employed in Clinical Ethics Support Services, an increasingly common feature of tertiary healthcare institutions and networks in Australia. The Clinical Ethics Stream aims to provide a point of contact between AABHL and the newly formed Clinical Ethics Society of Australasia. The stream also maintains its own mailing list, which anyone interested in clinical ethics is welcome to join.

Abstract: The focus of this talk will be on the seven facilitation steps of the Critical Dialogue Method (CDM) of clinical ethics consultation. The term critical refers to the use of systematic and deliberative analysis, whilst dialogue refers to the use of collaborative discussion to generate shared understanding and resolution of an ethical problem.

The facilitative steps of CDM aim to identify ethically justified responses and also assist participants to gain greater moral clarity and understanding of the ethical problem, and confidence to respond as independent moral agents. Through detailed description of ethics facilitation methods within each step, we demystify the process of how ethicists can empower others to undertake ethical reasoning.

We also propose that the critical dialogue method shares goals with ethics education – both aim to scaffold a participant/learner’s prior knowledge, promote critical and reflective thinking and build new insight and understanding. These shared goals open up the possibility of drawing from educational pedagogy literature to advance the scholarship of clinical ethics facilitation methods.

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