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>Subject: JOB: Health Care Ethics
>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:54:11 +0100
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>From: Lucy Frith <[log in to unmask]>
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>LECTURER IN HEALTH CARE ETHICS
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>Department of Primary Care
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>Faculty of Medicine
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>Background
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>Health care ethics is an increasingly important discipline within the area
>of medicine and health care in general. The General Medical Council has
>stated that medical ethics should constitute one of the core components of
>the medical curriculum and the practice of good medicine inevitably raises
>ethical issues that demands an understanding the subject. The teaching of
>health care ethics in the undergraduate curriculum at Liverpool reinforces
>the overall aims of medical education: the creation of good doctors who
>will enhance and promote the health and medical welfare of the people they
>serve in ways which fairly and justly respect their dignity, autonomy and
>rights. The existence of a number of post-graduate courses in the ethics of
>health care in the Faculty of Medicine serves as a valuable resource both
>for staff in the faculty and health care professionals in the region to be
>able to study the subject further.
>
>The post of Lecturer in Health Care Ethics was created in 1989 and
>subsequently received HEFCE funding. The post was first held by David
>Seedhouse and the current post holder, Lucy Frith, has been in post since
>1995.
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>Lucy Frith’s research interests include:
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>     a.. patient consent and confidentiality and general medical ethics
>issues
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>     b.. the ethical implications of evidence based medicine and clinical
>effectiveness and their role in the rationing of health care debate
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>     c.. reproductive technologies, genetics and gamete donation and
>anonymity
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>     d.. social science methodology in health care ethics.
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>Due to the increasing importance of ethics within the Faculty of Medicine,
>it has now been decided to create a second post of Lecturer in Health Care
>Ethics.
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>The Post
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>The post-holder will contribute to the development of health care ethics in
>the Faculty of Medicine and will be based in the Department of Primary
>Care. For further information on the department of primary care see
>http://www.liv.ac.uk/primcare/
>
>
>The core duties of the post consist of teaching, administration and
>research. The post holder will work along side the existing Lecturer in
>Health Care Ethics and within the behavioural sciences research group led
>by Professor Ann Jacoby, which is exploring patient perspectives on health
>care.
>
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>The main duties will include:
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>     a.. Playing an active role in the undergraduate medical curriculum’s
>delivery of health care ethics: organizing the delivery of the professional
>values strand in the curriculum, increasing awareness of this strand among
>PBL tutors, running SSMs, delivering plenaries, providing an ethics
>resource for the undergraduates and being involved in the assessment of
>students.
>
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>     a.. Contribute to the teaching of the post-graduate courses in health
>care ethics, contributing to the development of core ethics modules for all
>masters in the Faculty, general teaching on the post-gradate courses in
>health care ethics, assessment of students and dissertation supervision.
>
>
>     a.. Undertaking research in health care ethics, including
>participation
>in external grant applications and high quality peer reviewed publications.
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>     a.. Contribute to the administration of teaching - aid the current
>lecturer in the administrative load in both the undergraduate and
>post-graduate courses.
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>Person Specification
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>1. The post holder must have
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>     a.. appropriate qualifications in health care ethics, including a
>relevant higher degree.
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>     b.. experience of research in the area of health care ethics.
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>     c.. experience of teaching at either undergraduate or postgraduate
>level.
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>     d.. Enthusiasm for teaching health care ethics
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>     e.. Ability to work as a member of a team
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>     a.. Interpersonal skills necessary to ensure close and effective
>working with other members of the Department and to enable liaison with
>other members of the Medical School involved in the teaching of medical
>ethics
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>2. It will be advantageous for applicants to have one or more of the
>following qualities:
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>     a.. Experience of teaching in medical settings
>     a.. Experience of writing successful grant applications to national or
>international funders of research in medical ethics or humanities
>     b.. An educational qualification
>     c.. Knowledge of medical law, particularly the law of England and
>Wales.
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>
>The post is full time, and available immediately. Salary is on the scale
>for Lecturer [£20,470 to 32,537].
>
>For informal discussion and further information, please contact Lucy Frith
>on 0151 794 5597 or [log in to unmask] or Miss Anne Garden, Director of
>Medical Studies on [log in to unmask]
>


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