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RIZIV-accredited1 hour/pointEthics and EconomicsRIZIV 26010721

Dealing with care questions: professional code, responsibility, and competencies

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RIZIV recognition number: 26010721

How do you react when your moral compass clashes with practice? As a general practitioner, you constantly navigate between guidelines, patient expectations, and ethical choices.

This training provides you with a clear framework to apply ethics and deontology in practice. You will start with what deontology entails and how norms, values, and laws play a role in the healthcare context. You will discover how ethical dilemmas arise and learn to manage tensions through concrete cases.

Concepts such as professional ethics, code of conduct, and bioethical advisory bodies will be clearly positioned within your professional responsibility.

Additionally, the training focuses on legal patient rights, such as the right to quality service, protection of personal privacy, information about health status, and more.

Finally, the course addresses your professional confidentiality as a general practitioner, with attention to your duty of silence and duty to speak.

This training provides you with the necessary support when confronted with ethical dilemmas.

What will you learn?

Concepts of deontology, norms, values, and ethics
Recognizing and analyzing ethical dilemmas
Professional ethics and code of conduct in the healthcare sector
Role of ethical committees and research principles
The legal rights of the patient
Professional secrecy: duty of confidentiality versus duty to report

Content

1. Deontology: norms, values, rules, and laws8 min
2. Ethics and the ethical dilemma7 min
3. Cases concerning ethical dilemmas7 min
4. Professional ethics and code of conduct in the healthcare sector8 min
5. Ethical committees and research principles6 min
6. Overview of the legal patient rights5 min
7. Right to information and the right not to know6 min
8. Confidential advisor, representative, and pain management5 min
9. Complaint rights and the patient file4 min
10. The medical professional secrecy2 min
11. Conclusion2 min
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