Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics<\/a> (FASPE) gives medical students an opportunity to participate in a two-week course of study focusing on ethical problems doctors face in various practice settings.<\/p>\nGeisel School of Medicine student Natalie Ring \u201918, an active member of Physicians for Human Rights, who was selected by FASPE to spend time this summer in Germany and Poland, says the fellowship will enable her to make more ethical decisions when practicing medicine. Ring is among 63 fellows chosen from a competitive pool of international applicants.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel very lucky that at Geisel we have a very active Physicians for Human Rights chapter with fantastic faculty mentors, which has allowed me to nurture my interest in human rights,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring my third year of medical school, I saw so many instances of how physicians are faced with ethical decisions: allocating limited bed-space, navigating care for unresponsive patients, and disclosing medical errors are just a few examples,\u201d she says. \u201cI recognize that just because I intend to do well, I am not (and none of us are) exempt from making unethical decisions on the wards, and I hope to minimize the chances of that happening by deepening my understanding of ethics through the FASPE program.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ring\u2019s motivation for applying to the program stems from a personal experience\u2014a patient interaction while on her internal medicine rotation in San Francisco, CA where her team admitted a patient who was a Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing German, I thought he would not tolerate my presence on the team, but he was never anything other than kind and encouraging,\u201d says Ring who is from Munich. \u201cHe told me a lot of stories during his hospital stay\u2014both about his experience during the Holocaust and about his life after moving to the US.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though Ring is knowledgeable about the unethical research conducted on human subjects during the Holocaust, which led to establishing the Nuremberg Code, she says she cannot understand how physicians and citizens allowed those atrocities to happen. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to see in hindsight that these events should not have taken place, but what are our responsibilities for preventing such atrocities in the future?\u201d<\/p>\n
FASPE\u2019s founder and chairman writes in its announcement of this year\u2019s fellows, \u201cBy educating students about the causes of the Holocaust and the power of their chosen profession, FASPE seeks to instill a sense of professional responsibility for the ethical and moral choices that the Fellows will make in their careers and in their professional relationships.\u201d Ring will begin her fellowship in Berlin then travel to Krakow and O\u015bwi\u0119cim (the home of Auschwitz) in Poland.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a collective group of health care providers in a field rooted in science, it is important to continue to advocate against torture, for example, and discredit any claims that it is a useful or medically safe interrogation technique,\u201d Ring says.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be interesting to see how historical lessons from the Holocaust shape our discussion of two other important topics I hope we will be able to explore\u2014capital punishment and physician aid-in-dying.\u201d<\/p>\n
She says that by becoming part of the FASPE community, she will have another venue to continue engaging with these issues throughout her career as a physician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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