TITLE:  Psychiatrists, Public Speech, and Politics

PRESENTER:  Rebecca W. Brendel, M.D.

INTRODUCTION:

Rebecca Weintraub Brendel is the director of the Master’s Degree Program and Associate Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. She bases her clinical work in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) where she is the director of Law and Ethics at the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior, provides medical oversight for the hospital’s inpatient guardianship team, and practices clinical and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Brendel graduated from both University of Chicago Law School and Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed her psychiatry residency at MGH and McLean Hospitals, a forensic psychiatry fellowship at MGH, and an ethics faculty fellowship at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. She is also admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.

Dr. Brendel has spent her career at the interface of psychiatry, medicine, law, and ethics, and has served on multiple clinical and organizational ethics committees.  At present, she is Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Ethics Committee, Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Ethics Committee, and serving her first of seven years as a member of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, appointed by AMA President Patrice Harris MD. She is immediate past president of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Dr. Brendel is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Describe the parameters of the "Goldwater Rule" (Opinion 7.3).
• Articulate at least one contemporary critique of the Goldwater Rule.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the core ethical concepts relevant to psychiatrist participation in the media.
• Recognize strategies for ethical psychiatrist participation in public life.

Live webcast available at:  http://videos.mayo.edu/live

1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ hour is offered for watching this Webcast live.  Ethos will be implemented for all post presentation surveys.  To document your attendance, please text the code given at the presentation to 507-200-3010.  For questions, email rstpsychgr@mayo.edu

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Credit Statement(s)

AMA

The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

APA
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP).  The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the contents of the programs. 

This activity is approved for a maximum of 1.0 credits.  Credit is awarded only for actual instructional time.

Archived webcast available at: Psychiatry & Psychology Video Library

All participants MUST complete the evaluation in order to get CME or APA Credit.

1) Text the CODE announced at the session within 48 hours to (507) 200-3010
2) Login at ce.mayo.edu and go to My Account, My Courses, Registered Courses, click Session title and START to access the required Evaluation.

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Click the START button on that session page.

3) Evaluation must be completed within 2 weeks.

Listed below are individuals with control of the content of this program who have disclosed…

Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Mark Frye, MD
Grant Support - Assurex Health, Mayo Foundation, Medibio
Consultant - Actify Neurotherapies, Allergan, Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc., Janssen, Myriad, Neuralstem Inc., Takeda, Teva Pharmaceuticals
CME/Travel/Honoraria - American Physician Institute, CME Outfitters, Global Academy for Medical Education

No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Joshua Baruth, MD, Julia Benjamin, PhD, Ewa Bieber, MD, Deniz Doruk Camsari, MD., Melissa Goldschmidt, APRN, CNP, Bhanu Prakash Kolla, MD, Ashli McLaughlin, Sohail Mohammad, MBBS, MPH, Charlene Nelson, Daniela Rakocevic, MD, Kate Zelic, PhD

Speaker:  Rebecca Brendel, M.D.

References to off-label usage(s) of pharmaceuticals or instruments in their presentation:
NONE

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ATTENDANCE/CREDIT
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TRANSCRIPT
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