Ethics Consultation Service Positions
Chair
The ECS Chair serves in the role of a consultant and has responsibility for coordinating the monthly call schedule, ensuring consultation coverage, supervising the performance of consultation, and chairing the bi-weekly meetings of the Consultation Team. The Chair is responsible for the quality and effectiveness of the Consultation Team. The Chair will report to the Executive Committee for the Center on a quarterly basis. The Chair serves as an Associate Director to the Center.
Vice-Chair:
The ECS Vice-Chair serves in the role of a consultant and has responsibility for the Service (as outlined above) in the absence of the Chair. The Vice-Chair serves as an Assistant Director for the Center. The Chair and Vice-Chair work collaboratively in the coordination, delivery, and oversight of services provided by the Ethics Consultation Service.
Consultants
Consultants have primary responsibility for the content and process of ethics consultations being provided. This includes coordinating, supervising, and/or delivery of data gathering analysis; documentation, communication; and evaluation of the consultation.
Advisory Members:
Advisory members are those persons who, given their training and/or expertise, are invited as regular participants to Consult Service meetings, but do not serve as consultants.
Legal Representation:
The ECS includes in its membership a representative from the OHSU Legal Department.
Trainees:
Trainees are those persons who have been accepted for participation on the ECS through evaluation and determination by the Center Executive Committee. Trainees have completed the educational requirements to serve as a consultant, as noted in the Qualifications section below, and must be willing to participate in a one-year precepted training process before serving as a consultant. Trainees attend meetings of ECS and are coupled with a seasoned Consult TEAM member (mentor) for all consultation activities
Limited Observer:
Limited Observer is a category used to allow select students or visiting scientists to have the opportunity to observe limited activities of the ECS. Requests to be considered as a Limited Observer are submitted in writing, with sufficient detail to explain the reason for the request. These requests are reviewed by the Chair and Vice-Chair for approval. The observation period for a Limited Observer will be restricted to a select time period and the activities they can attend and observe will be designated by the Chair and Vice-Chair.
Consultant Qualifications:
· Consultants must meet the following criteria:
· Willing to accept the responsibilities of a Consultant
· Successful completion of a didactic course in ethics that includes both process and content skills associated with providing ethics consultations (example of accepted training programs would be completion of the Certificate program in Health Care Ethics at the University of Washington, OHSU, or PSU)
· Persons with equivalent training/experience may be considered, as the Executive Committee of the Center deems appropriate.
· Successful completion of a one-year precepted training program with a mentor assigned by the ECS.
· Persons who present with documented experience may have the requirement for a one-year precepted training program modified, as determined by the Executive Committee of the Center.
· Demonstrate competency in providing Level II and Level III consultations, as evidenced through performance and determined by the ECS Chair and Vice-Chair.
· Demonstrate competency in presentation of a case analysis, to be determined by the ECS Chair and Vice-Chair.
· Membership is periodically reviewed and approved through the Executive Committee of the Center.