• Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Thiago Fernando da Silva, Giancarlo Lucchetti, Emi Mori, Julia de Melo Koneski, Daniel Martins de Barros, and Gustavo Bonini Castellana.
• Universidade de São Paulo, Institute of Psychiatry, Clinics Hospital - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
• Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992). 2021 Feb 1; 67 (2): 178-181.

ObjectiveIt is not uncommon for medical residents to deal with critically ill patients who frequently show several ethical and human dilemmas, highlighting the need for a consultation with ethical specialists. The objective of this article is to present a description of a Brazilian Ethics Consultation group designed to attend psychiatry residents.MethodsThis article reports a case of a critically ill patient with Borderline Personality Disorder with multiple intervention failures and several ethical conflicts who was seen by a resident and supported by an ethics consultation group.ResultsWhen medical residents and medical staff face severe and unusual ethical dilemmas, they might feel unprepared and have ones' mental health impaired. Thus, this article reports a successful ethics consultation and discusses its development in other academic institutions.ConclusionMedical educators and staff from academic hospitals should pay attention to the needs of the medical residents. The development and support of ethics consultation groups must be provided to fulfill the need of those residents who face serious ethical and human dilemmas.

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