What Is Beetle?
Beetle is BioEthics Education with Team-based Learning Experience
A team-based learning experience designed to help medical professionals and students learn more about bioethics.
What Is The Purpose of BEETLE?
Bioethics education is essential in transforming the culture of medicine. Ethics education communicates the healthcare provider’s professional core values through knowledge and practice, creating a culture of humanism within the practice of medicine.
Dr. Ashley Fernandes and his colleagues at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have created the first-ever Team-Based Learning (TBL) bioethics curricula for pediatric resident education with the purpose of equipping and training faculty leaders at other institutions to create and execute TBL ethics modules for learners at any level of medical training.
The BEETLE website was funded through a generous grant from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the international leader in promoting humanism in medicine.
How Does BEETLE Work?
BEETLE is an open-access, free educational sharing website which contains our core curriculum, and allows the registered user to learn about TBL use in medical ethics education, access our institution’s materials, rate and comment on the educational content, share their own ideas and interventions, and request workshops and bioethics TBL sessions to be done at their home institutions.
We hope to promote patient-centered, humanistic medicine through curricula that will help to create a new generation of ethical and humanistic doctors and healthcare providers who always put the patient and family first, and are intentional in integrating empathetic communication into every encounter.
Vision
Working as a team, we will partner with the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to shape the education of residents and other healthcare professionals by developing and disseminating Team-Based Learning activities that promote integrating empathy into a “Five-Box method” to address the relevant care of pediatric and adult patients.
Our Strategic Goals
- Refine and expand our effective Team-Based Learning (TBL) pediatric resident ethics curricula to further promote The Picker Institute Principles: respect for patients’ values, preferences, and expressed needs; coordination and integration of care; communication, and education.
- Adapt TBL ethics to train residents, fellows and interprofessional members of the healthcare team (e.g., nursing, social work) to integrate empathy into Jonsen’s “Four-Box Method” of ethical analysis and care
- Establish a useful website resource and collaborative for ethicists and educators interested in Team-Based Learning in biomedical ethics
- Train faculty in pediatric and adult GME programs in creation and delivery of relevant Team-Based Learning ethics modules
Our Key Result Areas
- Improved knowledge, attitude and skills in biomedical ethics in pediatric and adult residents
- Improved knowledge, attitude and skills in biomedical ethics in fellows and healthcare professionals
- Faculty at multiple institutions trained to effectively educate learners in biomedical ethics through Team-Based Learning to integrate empathy into Jonsen’s “Four-Box Method” of ethical analysis and care—creating a “Five Box Method”
- Broad application by healthcare professionals of the Five Box Method with empathy integrated as an always element
Want to Use BEETLE?
BEETLE is an open-access, free educational sharing website which contains our core curriculum, and allows the registered user to learn about TBL use in medical ethics education. Gain access to our all documents today!
Why the beetle?
Our symbol—the scarab, a beetle ubiquitous in art and jewelry from ancient Egypt to the present day, symbolizes the rejuvenation of life, a rebirth. We pay respects to the bioethics educators before us and suggest that TBL in bioethics can bring “new life” to principles that pre-date Hippocrates.
