RSM Primary care ethics conference: The ethics of survival and flourishing in 21st Century healthcare

This event will highlight and discuss perennial problems of 21st century healthcare: morale and self-care, moral distress sustainable goals and practical wisdom. Expert speakers and workshop leaders will examine the ethics of survival and flourishing as a practitioner, educator, policymaker or patient. This will enable inter-professional learning with speakers from academic, educational, practice and patient advocacy backgrounds.

This meeting is 8th Primary Care Ethics conference to be run by the GP & PHC Section and the Open Section at the RSM.

The day is suitable for all with a professional healthcare roles, including academics, educators, practitioners and patients.

As this is the 8th Primary Care Ethics Conference, the meeting will also be of interest to (and a networking opportunity for) those with an academic, educational or clinical interest in the ethics of primary healthcare.

Topics include:

• The ethics of surviving and flourishing in the healthcare setting
• Learn about a variety of moral and ethical support strategies, from self-reflection to attending conferences
• Learn about moral distress, moral exploitation, and activism in the healthcare workplace
• Learn about the potential for clinicians and patients having shared goals
• How to access ethics support

Bursary funding

Bursary funding has been applied for, to cover the delegate fee of medical students and medical trainees. This will be offered to those whose abstracts are accepted on a first come/served basis according to the date of an accepted submission. In the event that a poster has multiple authors we will offer a maximum of two places per poster.