NYU-Gold Webinar: Drowning: Film and the Challenges of Migrant Health Ethics

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This webinar aired with a live Q&A with Dr. Catherine Belling on August 18, 5:30-6:30 p.m. ET. You must have attended the live session to receive CME credit.

1 CME credit is just $10; the Gold Foundation is supporting this series and has committed to making CME credit affordable. The webinar is free for non-CME attendees. Donations to support the Gold Foundation’s work are optional and welcome. Full accreditation information is below. More accreditation information is below.

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SPEAKER

Catherine Belling, PhD
Associate Professor of Medical Education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Education

BA: Rhodes University (1987)
MA: University of Cape Town (1993)
PhD: Stony Brook University (2000)

Website Links: https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=16309
https://northwestern.academia.edu/CateBelling/CurriculumVitae

SUMMARY

This presentation will explore how film—fiction or documentary—can enable clinicians to think through some of the ethical challenges posed by the health care needs of displaced persons, migrants, or refugees. I will draw from several recent films, about people attempting to migrate from Africa to Europe by sea, in order to consider questions of trauma, justice, responsibility, and the imagination. I end by considering the state of migration to the United States by sea, and how the stories of shipwreck, drowning, and survival in these films provide powerful metaphors for thinking about how to seek liveable answers to sometimes impossible questions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. After attending this lecture, participants will be able to describe some of the ethical challenges posed by the health care needs of displaced persons, refugees, and migrants.

2. After attending this lecture, participants will be able to identify some film resources whose representations offer ways to think about those ethical challenges.

3. After attending this lecture, participants will be able to describe how film representation, whether fiction or non-fiction, provides figurative as well as literal frameworks for approaching social or global challenges to health and those who care for the suffering.

CME ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

The NYU Grossman School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENTThe NYU Grossman School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. PROVIDED BYNYU Grossman School of Medicine

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