Activity ID
10725Expires
March 19, 2027Format Type
EnduringCME Credit
0.5Fee
$30CME Provider: AMA Journal of Ethics
Description of CME Course
This activity explores clinician involvement in and resistance to the Third Reich and the Holocaust. This topic is explored through a medical school in the Warsaw ghetto, human subject research on starvation that was not conducted by Nazi clinicians, and a Hebrew story, yet unpublished in English, of a 27-year-old physician trying to make medicine allocation decisions to treat diabetes and tuberculosis during the Holocaust. This module is appropriate for clinicians of all specialties.
Disclaimers
1. This activity is accredited by the American Medical Association.
2. This activity is free to AMA members.
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Educational Objectives
1. Describe conditions of the Warsaw Ghetto and the importance of its underground clinical practice, teaching, and research
2. Explain the nature and scope of the influence of starvation research conducted in the Warsaw Ghetto
3. Describe the present-day relevance of ethical questions faced by Jewish clinicians caring for fellow incarcerees in ghettos
Keywords
Ethics
Competencies
Medical Knowledge, Professionalism
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
DOI
10.1001/ama.2020.0000879
