Robert Baker, PhD,
director of the Union Graduate College bioethics program, which also does
ethics consult simulations� said they are critical to improving ethics
outcomes.
"We're using some
sophisticated methods to train people to be clinical ethicists and research
ethicists," Baker said. "It cannot be the case that the only
nonprofessional group of people working in a hospital are the ethicists. The
ethics people have to be just as competent, just as professional and just as
well-trained as everybody else in the health care setting."
Baker
sits on a committee recently formed by the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities,
the organization that represents clinical bioethicists, to examine what, if
any, training should be required of ethics consultants
