The Dual Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Clinical Ethics is a unique program that provides CL psychiatry fellows the opportunity to simultaneously complete the Paul Helft Part-Time Fellowship in Clinical Ethics. The dual fellowship allows the trainee to complete both fellowship programs in a single academic year.
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Applicants may email the program director, Emily Holmes, MD, or program coordinator, Linda Dye, with any questions about the application process.
The Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics (FCME) is an endowed center that was created to support clinical ethics consultation and education at IU Health, providing clinical ethics expertise to the health care system and the community at large. Since 2005, FCME has hosted the Paul Helft Part-Time Fellowship in Clinical Ethics, a competitive, part-time certificate program. The fellowship has graduated over 150 clinical ethics fellows, with multidisciplinary representation including physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other members of the health care team.
The fellowship consists of a core curriculum of weekly seminars (a full day on Wednesdays) on core topics in clinical ethics, three to four weeks of call on the ethics consultation service and a scholarly project.
Once a CL psychiatry fellow matches at IU School of Medicine, they are eligible to apply for the Paul Helft Part-Time Fellowship in Clinical Ethics. The fellowship application deadline is typically in late-March. If accepted, the dual fellow participates in the FCME fellowship curriculum alongside the CL psychiatry fellowship rotations.
That is completely fine! Fortunately, FCME hosts several educational opportunities that are open to the IU community. These include twice monthly ethics consultation case discussion, monthly ethics Grand Rounds and a biennial clinical ethics conference.