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Clinical ethics accreditation deals with the accreditation of training programs and of individual professionals who provide ethics consultation services. The purpose of ethics consultation is to adopt an ethics facilitation approach that fosters consensus around the most ethical treatment in a situation of ambiguity, dilemma, or dispute. A reliable model for accreditation integrates formal degree education with clinical residency, each followed by examinations. This model emphasizes professional practice standards that integrate knowledge and skills, with the former preceding the latter. This model suggests that it would be odd to certify individuals based on fellowship experiences in ethics consultations prior to completing the requisite knowledge standard. The goal of clinical ethics accreditation is to establish best practices based on empirical data to ensure the highest quality in ethics consultation services around the world.
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ASBH. (2011). Core competencies for healthcare ethics consultation, (2nd ed.). Glenview: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
Magill, G. (2013). Quality in ethics consultations. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy, 16(4), 761–774.
Tarzian, A. J., et al. (2013). Health care ethics consultation: An update on core competencies and emerging standards. The American Journal of Bioethics, 13(2), 3–13.
White, B. D., et al. (2014). Structuring a written examination to assess ASBH health care ethics consultation core knowledge competencies. The American Journal of Bioethics, 14(1), 5–17.
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Magill, G., Chair, V.F.G. (2015). Clinical Ethics: Accreditation. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_85-1
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