OVERVIEW:

Working in healthcare often involves dealing with life and death. Thus healthcare workers have an obligation to be well informed regarding rights of patients, informed consent, confidentiality, competence, advanced directives, negligence and many other things.

Medical ethics is concerned with the obligations of healthcare professionals towards the patient, towards the hospital, towards other health care workers and towards the society as a whole.

Ethical Considerations in Healthcare - Certification aims to prepare healthcare workers to deal with real world ethical dilemmas, medico-legal considerations in clinical practice, communicating effectively with the patient and cultivating a healthy patient-physician relationship.  

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Implementing the Medical Oath
• Developing effective Communication Skills
• Patient Confidentiality
• Patient and Attendant Counselling 
• High Risk and Procedural Consent
• Breaking Bad News
• Medico-Legal Considerations in Clinical Practice 
• Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare
• Ethics in Medical Education

ELIGIBILITY:

For healthcare professionals such as general physicians, family healthcare providers, nurses, medical technicians, paramedics and medical students

COURSE DURATION AND MATERIAL:

• 07 HOURS.
• ECHC Booklet

VALIDITY:

• 2 YEARS