Legacy of Medicine During the Holocaust and its Contemporary Relevance: A Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter Teaches German Medical Students at Auschwitz

Dates and Times

Start: 1/24/2024 7:00 AM
End: 1/24/2024 8:00 AM

Objectives

Discuss why reflecting upon and learning about egregious ethical violations of physicians and the medical establishment during Nazism and the Holocaust is a “moral imperative” within medical education for cultivating morally resilient history-informed professional identity formation and promoting humanistic healthcare

Describe the history of healers becoming killers and the implications for oneself as a health professional

Identify examples of Jewish prisoner-physicians in ghettos and camps and “righteous of the nations’ ones” who demonstrated moral courage and resistance and their relevance to contemporary practice of medicine

Recognize contemporary relevance of the legacy of health professional involvement in the Holocaust when facing ethical dilemmas and issues of potential abuse of power in clinical practice, research, and public policy as well as contemporary societal issues of preserving human dignity including eliminating antisemitism, racism, and discrimination of any kind.

Social Medicine Grand Rounds

Identify patients at risk for worsening comorbid conditions due to health care disparities due to social and economic conditions.

Understand how socioeconomic condition impacts population health

Understand the role that healthcare economics, policy and reform plays in population health

Develop strategies to help mitigate disease burden and improve patient outcomes

Develop a patient centered, team-based approach to patient care, and to utilize community resources to improve health outcomes.

Speakers

Location

Chancellors Hall
39 Tuckahoe Rd
Duke Auditorium
Southampton, NY 11968

Accreditation

The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ^™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.