Activity ID
10174Expires
November 22, 2025Format Type
InternetCME Credit
1Fee
$0 - $45CME Provider: Massachusetts Medical Society
Description of CME Course
Presented by the Committee on Ethics, Grievances, and Professional Standards, the Ethics Forum alerts physicians to the ethical implications of issues that arise in daily practice and offers information on issues at the intersection of ethics, medicine, and professionalism. This Ethics Forum (previously recorded on November 30, 2022 as part of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Interim Meeting) explores ethical implications of for-profit financing models in medical practices and institutions.
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Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
Describe various types of for-profit financing of health care, including for medical practices
Appreciate the ethical tensions that arise in for-profit financing of medical institutions
Apply principles of medical ethics in assessing the potential ethical concerns that various for-profit funding models may pose for physicians
Keywords
Ethics, Professionalism
Competencies
Professionalism
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Practice Setting
Academic Medicine, Inpatient, Outpatient, Physician Executives, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
