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Catherine V. Caldicott

Catherine V. Caldicott, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Humanities.  She earned her medical degree at Dartmouth and trained in internal medicine at Yale and the University of Michigan, where she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.  Dr. Caldicott joined the Center in 2001. 

Her teaching spans several venues at Upstate.  She leads educational sessions with nurses, social workers, and housestaff.  Dr. Caldicott teaches required bioethics courses to third-year medical students in Bioethics at the Bedside, and nursing and health professions students in Health Care Ethics.  She serves on the University Hospital Ethics Committee and Ethics Consultation Service, and is a judge for the Bruce Dearing Writing Award.

Dr. Caldicott's research interests include moral development in medical training and practice, evaluation of bioethics education, and issues of professionalism.  She is the PI on a project to develop an instrument to assess ethical reasoning and judgment in medical students and physicians.  Dr. Caldicott served on the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Task Force on Graduate Medical Education in Bioethics and Humanities, a resource to guide residency programs in meeting accreditation standards.

Dr. Caldicott's skills in qualitative methodologies have resulted in presentations for ASBH, the American Educational Research Association, the American Association of Medical Colleges, and the Society of General Internal Medicine.  Dr. Caldicott's research appears in Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 

Dr. Caldicott may be reached at 315.464.5404 or at caldicoc@upstate.edu.

Selected Publications

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Caldicott CV. “Sweeping up after the parade”: professional, ethical, and patient care implications of “turfing”. Perspect Biol Med. 2007 Winter;50(1):136-49.

Caldicott CV, Faber-Langendoen K. Deception, discrimination, and fear of reprisal: lessons in ethics from third-year medical students. Acad Med. 2005 Sep;80(9):866-73.

Caldicott CV, Dunn KA, Frankel RM. Can patients tell when they are unwanted? “Turfing” in residency training. Patient Educ Couns. 2005 Jan;56(1):104-11.

Stern DT, Caldicott CV. Turfing: patients in the balance. J Gen Intern Med. 1999 Apr;14(4):243-8.

Caldicott CV. From balcony to bedside: operatic entrance music in the clinical encounter. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 1998 Sum;41(4):549-64. 

Caldicott CV. What’s wrong with this medical student today? Dysfluency on inpatient rounds.
Ann Intern Med. 1998 Apr 1;128(7):607-10.

Caldicott CV, Stern DT. “Turfing” narratives and the ideology of residency. Acad Med. 1997 Oct;72(10 Suppl 1):S54-6.

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