ERIC Number: EJ1296987
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jun
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1570-1727
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Navigating Complex, Ethical Problems in Professional Life: A Guide to Teaching SMART Strategies for Decision-Making
Journal of Academic Ethics, v19 n2 p139-156 Jun 2021
This article demonstrates how instructors of professionalism and ethics training programs can integrate a professional decision-making tool in training curricula. This tool can help trainees understand how to apply professional decision-making strategies to address the threats posed by a variety of psychological and environmental factors when they are faced with complex professional and ethical situations. We begin by highlighting key decision-making frameworks and discussing factors that may undermine the use of professional decision-making strategies. Then, drawing upon findings from past research, we present the "SMART" professional decision-making framework: seeking help, managing emotions, anticipating consequences, recognizing rules and context, and testing assumptions and motives. Next, we present a vignette that poses a complex ethical and professional challenge and illustrate how each professional decision-making strategy could or should be used by characters in the case. To conclude, we review a series of educational practices and pedagogical tools intended to help trainers facilitate trainee learning, retention, and application of "SMART" decision-making strategies.
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Ethics, Problem Solving, Decision Making Skills, Training, Trainees, Professionalism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) (DHHS/NIH); Office of Research Integrity (ORI) (DHHS/PHS); National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: UL1TR002345; UL1TR000448; ORIIR140007; K01HG008990
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