Facilitator Guide

Introduction

FACILITATOR ROLE:

• Welcomes participants to the session; asks participants to introduce themselves
• Distributes any handout materials
• Invites all to join in the opening prayer
• Reminds participants that reading the ERDs in advance is helpful.
• Introduces the video resource briefly
• Purpose: In Catholic health care, the delivery of care is bound by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The purpose of this program is to familiarize physicians with the Directives and some of the theological and ethical presuppositions on which they are based. As health care organizations are accountable, so are physicians. This program will help physicians to better understand and apply the guiding principles of the Directives in a manner consistent with Catholic tradition.
• Introduction and six parts
• Pattern for each segment:
• Video viewing
• Case studies and discussion
• States the Overall Objectives:
1. Participants will understand that Catholic health care services are bound by the Directives.
2. Participants will be familiar with the contents of the six parts of the Directives and their underlying principles.
3. Participants will review at least one case study for each part, and identify particular Directives that apply to that case.
4. Participants will view a video in which physicians, sponsors, ethicists and church leaders speak of how the Directives influence them.
5. Participants will have the opportunity to identify ways in which their organization applies the Directives.
6. Participants will identify how the Directives may be appropriately applied in their own practice of medicine and relationships with patients and staff.
• Asks: In your experience as a physician, have you had the opportunity to use the ERDs as a resource for a particular situation?
• Asks: If you are familiar with the ERDs and have used them, which part has been most useful to you in the practice of medicine?
• Asks: What questions do you have?

VIDEO – GENERAL INTRODUCTION

(video segment, 16:50 minutes)

Facilitator Role:

• Welcomes participants to the session; asks participants to introduce themselves
• Distributes any handout materials
• Invites all to join in the opening prayer
• Reminds participants that reading the ERDs in advance is helpful.

Facilitator: Plays the video Introduction

• Dr. Daniel Sulmasy — Introductory Comments
• Voices from Catholic Health Care
• Overview of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services
• Purpose of the ERDs
• Structure of the ERDs (The six parts are named and summarized.)
• Dr. Daniel Sulmasy – Summary and Concluding Comments

Debriefs by asking: What is your strongest impression of the thoughts expressed in the video? Do you have other observations or questions?

Summary and Conclusion