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ProBE and CPEP

Faculty Members

The ProBE Program

Mini-ProBE Workshop for licensing board members

CPEP Patient Documentation Seminars

 

PROGRAM OFFERINGS:

ProBE Faculty

ProBE – Professional/Problem Based Ethics For a PDF version of the ProBE Program Brochure Mini ProBE - A Workshop for Licensing Board Members CPEP -- Patient Care Documentation Seminars

Joseph C. d'Oronzio, PhD, MPH Health Policy and Management Division Mailman School of Public Health University Center for Bioethics Columbia University Program Director Catherine Caldicott, MD, FACP Departments of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and the Humanities SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, New York Richard Martinez, MD, MH Department of Forensic Psychiatry Emergency and Forensic Psychiatric Services Denver Health Sciences Center University of Colorado David M. Price, MDiv., PhD Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics (ret.) Director, Center for Health Care Ethics University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey Medical School

Sources and Acknowledgments

IN 1992, THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS brought the members of THE ETHICS GROUP, LLC together with a special challenge. They were faced with an increasing number of physicians who had been identified by the Board for infractions that suggested the need for a special kind of educational intervention.
In the past, the licenses of these physicians had been suspended for a period of time and/or the payment of a fine and/or enrollment in a medical ethics course. They envisioned an educational intervention that would deal broadly with medical professional and boundary issues and directly with the specific violations commonly identified by the Board.
THIS IS THE ORIGIN OF THIS PROGRAM and of the concept captured by the acronym, -- ProBE -- Professional/Problem-Based Ethics. Offered between 1992 and 1995 solely by the New Jersey Board, we were encouraged to make the program available more broadly to other agencies within the medical community, other health care professionals, and to other state licensing boards.
IN THE DECADE (1996-2007) since The ProBE Program was expanded and offered nationally, it has been subscribed to and/or endorsed by 44 licensing boards in the United States. It has also been utilized as a mediation program by subspecialty boards, and part of the PREP (Practitioner Remediation and Enhancement Partnership) "alternative to discipline" intervention.
IN AUGUST, 2007, CPEP - THE CENTER FOR PERSONALIZED EDUCTATION FOR PHYSICIANS merged with The Ethics Group, LLC to offer the various ProBE Programs under CPEP auspices. This collaboration promises the highest quality of assessment, evaluation and educational intervention based on nearly four decades of combined experience. The continuity of the ProBE Program's leadership and experienced interdisciplinary faculty remains in place while it joins the larger framework of CPEP's organization. CPEP's reputation as a pioneer in personalized assessment and remediation of deficits of knowledge and skills is a good match for the ProBE Program's national reputation for ethics education targeted to the specific ethical lapses of heath professionals under discipline.

ProBE HAS BEEN PRESENTED to numerous hospital grand rounds and has been on the programs of professional society meetings across the spectrum of the health professions. We gratefully acknowledge this interest in our work and especially the assistance and support of the medical board community in the development, implementation and evaluation of this intervention.

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	CPEP - Center for Personalized Education for Physicians 7351 Lowry Boulevard, Suite 100 Denver, CO 80230 Telephone: 303-577-3232 -- Fax: 303-577-3241
Contacts:	Cindy Usick, ProBE Program Coordinator Joseph C. d'Oronzio, PhD, MPH ProBE Program Director