Please join us for our CBSSM seminar scheduled for January 17, 2013, at 3-4 pm, NCRC Building 16, Room 266C. Scott Kim, MD, PhD, will present a talk entitled, “Do patients and research subjects think like bioethicists?”

Summary: There are numerous studies purporting to show that research subjects confuse research as cutting edge treatment, or have unrealistic expectations of benefit from participating. There are also studies showing that patients have unrealistic and erroneous understanding of aims of treatment.   If these studies are valid, then there is a genuine crisis of informed consent, both in the clinic and in the research setting.   We will discuss some data that show that measurement of ”˜misunderstanding’ or ”˜unrealistic beliefs’ in patients and research subjects may be much more difficult than researchers assume.

Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of CBSSM.