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After the webinar
Move directly into the Founding Commitment, then open the Leadership Discernment worksheet.
Transcript & slide index
Slide 1 · ~3 min
Called to Heal
Welcome. Establish tone: this is formation, not a lecture. Read the Hippocratic line slowly, then let the central question sit in silence for five seconds before speaking. Name the five pillars. Tell them the whole session is 40 minutes and there are two moments where they will vote.
Slide 2 · ~4 min
Medicine: Career or Vocation?
Ask for a show of hands: who has been asked 'why medicine?' in an interview and gave an answer they did not fully believe? Then walk the three columns. Land hard on the white coat line. Close with Moscati: a real physician, a real scientist, canonized in 1987.
Slide 3 · ~3 min
Excellence Is Stewardship
This is the slide that surprises pre-meds. Do not attack ambition — redirect it. Excellence is not opposed to holiness; it is how a physician loves a stranger they have not met yet. Read CCC 1803 aloud if time allows.
Slide 4 · ~3 min
Before the Crisis Comes
Slow down here. The interior life is the hinge of the whole program. Ask: when the pressure arrives at 2am on a rotation, what will you draw from? Formation is deposited before it is withdrawn.
Slide 5 · ~6 min
Medical Dilemma — What Would You Do?
Read the scenario without editorializing. Do not signal the 'right' answer. Point at the QR code — participants scan it and vote from their phones. Give 60 seconds, then ask two students to explain their reasoning, not their conclusion.
Slide 6 · ~4 min
Now Make It Harder
Read the patient's line in her voice, not yours. Then ask whether anyone's answer changed — they re-vote on the same QR code. The point is not the vote; the point is that abstract positions must survive a frightened human being.
Slide 7 · ~4 min
How Do We Know What Is Right?
Teach the moral act cleanly: object, intention, circumstances. Emphasize that most disagreements in medicine collapse into a disagreement about the object. Preview that the full program adds cooperation and double effect.
Slide 8 · ~3 min
Questions You Will Face
Do not answer these today. Name them honestly and promise the method. Students relax when they learn the questions are askable.
Slide 9 · ~3 min
Don't Google Your Way to a Conscience
The seven-step method is the most portable thing they will take from tonight. Emphasize step 5: if you cannot state the strongest opposing argument accurately, you are not ready to answer.
Slide 10 · ~3 min
Discern Your Gifts
Transition from personal formation to ministry. Be explicit: nobody is assigned a title tonight. The worksheet feeds a human conversation, not an algorithm.
Slide 11 · ~3 min
From a Group to a Ministry
Walk the eight stages quickly — one sentence each. This is the map of the full program and the answer to 'what happens after tonight?'
Slide 12 · ~3 min
Your First Mission Starts Now
End with action and with the saint. Give the 30-day checklist, name the $2,000 founding goal once — clearly and without pressure — and close by returning to the opening question in silence.
The question beneath everything
What kind of doctor are you becoming?
The AFA Faith & Medicine Formation Program provides educational, spiritual, ethical, and professional formation. It does not provide medical advice, legal advice, clinical supervision, or institutional compliance advice. Students and professionals should consult appropriately qualified physicians, attorneys, bioethicists, institutional leaders, compliance professionals, clergy, chaplains, and other experts when addressing specific professional or clinical situations.
AFA Ministry • Barry University Faith & Medicine Cohort
Slide 1 notes: Welcome. Establish tone: this is formation, not a lecture. Read the Hippocratic line slowly, then let the central question sit in silence for five seconds before speaking. Name the five pillars. Tell them the whole session is 40 minutes and there are two moments where they will vote.
Slide 2
MEDICINE: CAREER OR VOCATION?
Career
What I do.
The work I am paid for and the ladder I climb.
Profession
What I am trained to do.
The competence, license and standards I am accountable to.
Vocation
Who I am called to become.
The person being formed through the work — visible to patients long before my CV is.
Your white coat will tell people what you do. Your character will tell them who you are.
St. Giuseppe MoscatiPhysician • Scientist • Professor • Servant • Saint
Slide 2 notes: Ask for a show of hands: who has been asked 'why medicine?' in an interview and gave an answer they did not fully believe? Then walk the three columns. Land hard on the white coat line. Close with Moscati: a real physician, a real scientist, canonized in 1987.
Slide 3
EXCELLENCE IS STEWARDSHIP
High Performance With a Higher Purpose
YOUR GPA IS NOT YOUR IDENTITY.
EffortDisciplineIntegrityPreparationStewardship
Excellence ≠ Ego
Excellence = Stewardship + Service
How are you using the gifts God has entrusted to you?
Slide 3 notes: This is the slide that surprises pre-meds. Do not attack ambition — redirect it. Excellence is not opposed to holiness; it is how a physician loves a stranger they have not met yet. Read CCC 1803 aloud if time allows.
Slide 4
BEFORE THE CRISIS COMES
Build the Interior Life of the Physician
Hard decisions reveal formation. They rarely create it.
Prayer
Daily contact with the One who called you.
Discernment
A process, not a mood.
Conscience
Formed by truth, not preference.
Community
People who can tell you the truth.
WHO ARE YOU BECOMING BEFORE THE PRESSURE ARRIVES?
Slide 4 notes: Slow down here. The interior life is the hinge of the whole program. Ask: when the pressure arrives at 2am on a rotation, what will you draw from? Formation is deposited before it is withdrawn.
Slide 5 • Interactive — scan to vote
MEDICAL DILEMMA
What Would You Do?
A medical student is completing a clinical rotation. A patient discovers she is pregnant and tells the medical team that she wants an abortion. The supervising physician asks the student to discuss next steps and assist in facilitating the process. The student believes direct participation would violate deeply held religious and moral convictions.
The supervising physician is evaluating the student's performance. The patient is frightened.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
Scan to vote — anonymous
called-to-heal.lovable.app/webinar
Open the poll on your phone and choose A–E, then set your confidence. No scoring — your reasoning matters more than your letter.
Slide 5 notes: Read the scenario without editorializing. Do not signal the 'right' answer. Point at the QR code — participants scan it and vote from their phones. Give 60 seconds, then ask two students to explain their reasoning, not their conclusion.
Slide 6 • Interactive — scan to re-vote
NOW MAKE IT HARDER
“I'm terrified. I don't know what to do. Everyone is telling me something different.”
DOES YOUR ANSWER CHANGE?
Conscience
Patient Dignity
Professional Responsibility
Integrity
WHAT WOULD YOU ACTUALLY SAY?
Scan to re-vote
called-to-heal.lovable.app/webinar
Same link, second question. Answer honestly — changing your mind in the light of a real person is not weakness.
Slide 6 notes: Read the patient's line in her voice, not yours. Then ask whether anyone's answer changed — they re-vote on the same QR code. The point is not the vote; the point is that abstract positions must survive a frightened human being.
Slide 7
HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT?
A Catholic Framework for Moral Reasoning
Don't begin with
“What answer do I want?”
Begin with
“What is true and good?”
1. Object
What am I choosing?
The act itself, described accurately and without euphemism.
2. Intention
Why am I choosing it?
The end I actually seek, not the one I would prefer to report.
3. Circumstances
What surrounds it?
Factors that raise or lessen responsibility — but never change a bad object.
IS MY CONSCIENCE PROPERLY FORMED?
Full Program: Cooperation • Double Effect • Conscience • Case Analysis
Slide 7 notes: Teach the moral act cleanly: object, intention, circumstances. Emphasize that most disagreements in medicine collapse into a disagreement about the object. Preview that the full program adds cooperation and double effect.
Slide 8
QUESTIONS YOU WILL FACE
Beginning of Life
When does human life begin?
What if the mother's life is threatened?
What about ectopic pregnancy?
What constitutes participation?
What constitutes cooperation?
What if training conflicts with conscience?
How do you care for someone who disagrees with you?
CCC §§2270–2275
End of Life
Is stopping treatment euthanasia?
Must every treatment always continue?
What is proportionate care?
What is disproportionate care?
What about powerful pain medication?
What is palliative care?
What if a patient asks you to help them die?
CCC §§2276–2279
TODAY: We identify the questions.
FULL PROGRAM: We learn how to investigate and answer them.
Slide 8 notes: Do not answer these today. Name them honestly and promise the method. Students relax when they learn the questions are askable.
Slide 9
DON'T GOOGLE YOUR WAY TO A CONSCIENCE
How to Research Difficult Questions
1. Medicine
What are the clinical facts?
2. Church Teaching
What does the Church actually teach?
3. Moral Principles
What ethical principles apply?
4. Law & Policy
What is legally and professionally required?
5. Opposing Arguments
Can I state the strongest disagreement?
6. Wise Counsel
Who is competent to advise me?
7. Prayer & Discernment
Have I brought this before God?
FAITH + REASON
Not fear. Not slogans. Not algorithms.
Slide 9 notes: The seven-step method is the most portable thing they will take from tonight. Emphasize step 5: if you cannot state the strongest opposing argument accurately, you are not ready to answer.
Slide 10 notes: Transition from personal formation to ministry. Be explicit: nobody is assigned a title tonight. The worksheet feeds a human conversation, not an algorithm.
Slide 11
FROM A GROUP TO A MINISTRY
The Full Faith & Medicine Formation Journey
1 — Calling
Who am I becoming?
2 — Excellence
How do I steward my gifts?
3 — Discernment
How do I form my interior life?
4 — Bioethics
How do I reason morally?
5 — Human Life
Beginning- and end-of-life questions.
6 — Courage
When convictions meet pressure.
7 — Community
How do we build something strong?
8 — Mission
How do we lead, fund and sustain it?
AFA FAITH & MEDICINE FORMATION PROGRAM
Slide 11 notes: Walk the eight stages quickly — one sentence each. This is the map of the full program and the answer to 'what happens after tonight?'
Slide 12
YOUR FIRST MISSION STARTS NOW
The Founding 30 Days
You do not have to wait for the full program to begin.
Form the founding team
Discern leadership roles
Create the ministry covenant
Establish the meeting rhythm
Begin praying together
Identify mentors and supporters
Set the funding goal
Build the fundraising strategy
Founding Formation Goal
Raise the resources necessary to launch the complete formation program.
St. Giuseppe Moscati
Physician • Scientist • Servant • Saint
WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR ARE YOU BECOMING?
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Slide 12 notes: End with action and with the saint. Give the 30-day checklist, name the $2,000 founding goal once — clearly and without pressure — and close by returning to the opening question in silence.
