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Practice Management
Code of Ethics Program
DURATION
3 hours
PROFESSION
Physician
# OF CREDITS
3
ACCREDITATION
EXPIRY DATE
2021-10-02
Learning objectives
- Healthcare practitioner’s responsibilities to patients
- List the behaviors that constitute the good treatment of patients
- Identify how to guard and maintain the patient’s rights
- Confirm that patients’ rights are respected during a teaching and learning session on patients
- Generate a checklist to follow when breaking bad news to a patient or his/her family
- Assess how to talk to a patients and what information to disclose when dealing with bad news
- Respect the patient’s right to know the truth
- Contemplate on the best ways to communicate with the patient’s family during difficult situations
- Identify the situations in which truth-telling to the patient needs to be approached with great caution
- List the steps to follow when breaking bad news to patients or their families
- Contemplate how to break bad news to patients
- Assess how to talk to patients in difficult situations
- Identify the exceptional situations in which truth-telling to the patient needs to be approached with greater caution
- Identify the conditions required to obtain a valid patient consent to treatment
- Respect the patient’s right to refuse medical treatment
- Assess how to address patients refusing medical treatment
- Discuss ethical issues in different emergency situations
- State the ethical framework to follow in emergency situations
- Assess the importance in emergency cases to sort patients according to clinical need
- Healthcare practitioner’s professional relationships and duties
- Recognize the need to prescribe the right treatment regardless of the insurance coverage
- State ethical considerations related to the healthcare practitioners’ fees
- List the ethics of receiving individual or corporate gifts and benefits
- Consider the patients’ needs and use clinical judgement when dealing with commercial medical companies
- State the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of medical records
- Describe proper documentation of medical records
- Assess the need for certificates and reports to be accurate
- Recognize the need to prescribe the right treatment regardless of the insurance coverage
- State the ethical considerations related to the healthcare practitioners’ fees
- List the ethics of receiving individual or corporate gifts and benefits
- Consider the patients’ needs and use clinical judgement when dealing with commercial medical companies
- List the proper steps to follow to decide if a newly developed healthcare practice is ethically acceptable to implement
- Evaluate a newly developed health practice by respecting religious and regulatory rulings
- Dealing with difficult situations in healthcare practices
- Define life- threatening incurable diseases and identify how to manage such conditions
- Evaluate when to stop medical treatment in cases of terminally incurable diseases and the measures to take if the decisions is taken
- Appraise the ethical behavior defining a DNR (do not resuscitate) condition
- Recognize the importance of continuing treatment for treatable symptoms observed in a patient in coma due to cerebral cor cal damage
- Identify key considerations related to the dealing with communicable diseases
- List the measures to take when dealing with a patient with communicable diseases
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of credits: 3
Duration: 3 hours
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