1. General information
Target group
The programme is meant for PhD-students, researchers and healthcare professionals. Reflection and Participation
Venue
in Health Care
The master classes and symposium will be held in the Auditorium at the Main master classes, symposium and inaugural lectures
Building of the VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. The inaugural lectures will be held in the Aula at the same building.
Parking
The Main Building of the VU University Amsterdam can be easily reached by public
transport. Around the university there is paid parking. Because of construction
activities, parking is limited.
Way of payment
Online registration is possible through www.vumc.nl/paog/healthcare. Payment will
be done by iDEAL.
Registration
• € 95,- master class and symposium
• € 50,- symposium only
The fee includes a free copy of the book by Abma, Widdershoven and colleagues.
Please note that you can only choose one master class. Each master class has a limit
of 30 participants. Placement is based on first-come-first-serve. Thursday, September 9 th 2010
foto: Nel Appelmelk
Cancellation Auditorium
Notification of cancellation must be made in writing to PAOG. Cancellation of
registration will be accepted until August 16th, 2010. The total amount will be
Main Building
refunded minus € 35,- handling fee. After this date no refunds will be possible.
VU University Amsterdam
Organisation and information:
VU University Medical Center
PAOG Course and Congress Organisation The Netherlands
Irene van Baardwijk and Jitta Reddingius
PO Box 7057
1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
telephone +31 (0)20 - 444 8444
fax +31 (0)20 - 444 8445
e-mail: paog@vumc.nl
website: www.paog.nl

2. Introduction Programme Keynote speakers
Healthcare professionals encounter moral dilemmas on a daily basis. Moral 09.00-09.25 Start registration Dr. Tina Cook
deliberation is a structured approach to reflect on moral dilemmas on the work floor. Tina Cook is senior researcher at the Northumbria University in Newcastle. Her work
Through collective participation in moral reflection, professionals enhance their 09.25-09.30 Welcome concentrates on the methodology of collaborative action research with people who
understanding of good care. Prof. dr. T.A. Abma and Prof. dr. G.A.M. Widdershoven are harder to involve in research. Her master class will be devoted to methodological
issues surrounding collaborative work like dealing with the ‘messy’ character of
Patients and clients have their own perspectives on quality of life and care. 09.30-11.30 Master classes such work. Her lecture is about a collaborative project she undertook with men
Deliberative approaches help to engage both clients and professionals in a mutual • Collaborative Action Research by Dr. Tina Cook with learning disabilities in a forensic psychiatric setting and their notions of ethical
process of relational empowerment and transformational change. Reflection and • Mixed Methods by Prof. dr. Jennifer Greene research.
co-learning are part of this process. • Empirical ethics in psychiatry by Prof. dr. Tony Hope
• Clinical ethics in the medical curriculum by Prof. dr. Rosamond Rhodes Prof. dr. Jennifer Greene
This symposium presents recent developments regarding reflection and participation Jennifer Greene is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at
in healthcare. The themes will be discussed from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. 11.30-12.30 Lunch Urbana-Champaign. She has published on mixed methods and program evaluation.
Her master class will provide an overview of the methodology and the potential of
The symposium is organised prior to the two inaugural lectures of 12.30-12.40 Welcome mixed methods approaches to social inquiry. In her lecture she will share her work
Prof. dr. Tineke A. Abma (The Mosae Chair Client participation in Elderly care) and Prof. dr. ir. Hans Brug, scientific director EMGO+ Research Institute for on educative, values-engaged evaluation, an approach rooted in responsive and
Prof. dr. Guy A.M. Widdershoven (Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine). Health and Care Research democratic approaches to evaluation, but one that foregrounds commitments to
equity, which in the US first and foremost deals with ethnic minorities and the poor.
Participants will receive a free copy of the book that will be launched to present the 12.40-13.10 Patient Perspectives in Empirical Ethics
work that has been done by PhD students and colleagues of Abma and Widdershoven. Prof. dr. Tony Hope Prof. dr. Tony Hope
Tony Hope is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford and honorary
We look forward to welcoming you all on Thursday, September 9th 2010. 13.10-13.40 Researching Notions of Ethical Research with Men with consultant psychiatrist. He was the founding director of the Ethox Centre which
Learning Disability carries out research, teaching and clinical consultation in ethics close to healthcare
Tineke A. Abma and Guy A.M. Widdershoven Dr. Tina Cook practice and medical research. He will use examples taken from interviews with
Department of Medical Humanities people with anorexia nervosa reflecting on the experiences of the disorder and
VU University Medical Center / EMGO+ Research Institute for Health and Care Research 13.40- 14.00 Break & tea therapy to raise conceptual issues underlying some ethical questions.
14.00-14.30 Clinical Ethics and Medical Education Prof. dr. Rosamond Rhodes
Prof. dr. Rosamond Rhodes Rosamond Rhodes is Director of Bioethics Education and Professor of Medical Education
at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She is also Professor of Philosophy
14.30-15.00 Values Engaged Evaluation with Ethnic Minorities at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Associate Director and Professor of Bioethics in the
Prof. dr. Jennifer Greene Union-Mount Sinai Bioethics Program. Her work draws on classical and contemporary
moral and political philosophy to address a broad range of issues in bioethics. Her
15.00-15.45 Break & tea master class will explain a model of clinical moral reasoning and show how it can be
used in structuring a curriculum and in assessing ethics competency. Her lecture will
15.45-16.15 Herinneringen en dromen van zeggenschap provide an overview of the goals and aims of a medical school program in ethics.
Prof. dr. Tineke A. Abma
16.15-16.45 Reflectie als interventie
Prof. dr. Guy A.M. Widdershoven
16.45-18.00 Reception