The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Surgical Ethics Working Group (SEWG) is offering the 2025 Harvard Surgical Ethics Conference that will explore where ethical decision-making intersects with surgical practice. Session topics will include teaching bioethics, transplant ethics, global surgery, and AI in surgery. The need for ethics education and expertise is driven by rapid advancements in technology, evolving surgical practices, teaching methods, and global disparities in surgical care, leading to more difficult ethical challenges for healthcare professionals.
This virtual conference series will be held weekly on Mondays over four weeks in April 2025. Each session will run from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Eastern Time and will feature a different topic exploring timely and, in some cases, controversial ethical topics in surgery. Each session will include three short talks (20-25 minutes each) by expert faculty from the Center for Bioethics and others. This will be followed by a moderated question and answer period with the speakers. The interactive format is designed to encourage participant engagement and address their specific questions.
We are offering 8.0 continuing education credits for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, as well as Maintenance of Certification credit for pediatrics, internal medicine, anesthesiology, and surgery.