Introduction
Health care decisions are based not only on clinical and technical grounds but
also on ethical grounds. Although we carefully weigh the clinical and technical
aspects, ethical issues involved may be overlooked (WHO).
Medical professionalism is highlighted in this course with examples of
professional misconduct rendering a doctor liable for disciplinary action as well
as the impact of ethical issues on professionalism.
Integrated measures to ensure the protection of the human rights of people
affected by various health issues and circumstances with guidance on the
refugee’s rights to health.
This course aims to develop the participant’s understanding of these
controversial matters for public health and health professionals.
Assessment
Participants are assessed on the self-study component of each course through
means of a multiple-choice questionnaire.
Course Content
The FPD CPD/CME online education package consists of 4 short courses which
include:
Medical Ethics: Designed to cover key constituents’ parts of medical ethics
including rights and responsibilities, ethical-legal frameworks, beginning and
end-of-life, governance and healthcare.
Medical Professionalism: Designed to explore the concepts of medical
professionalism and how they might be applied in various settings including
altruism and commitment to patient interests, physician self-regulation and
maintenance of competence, civic engagement, relevance to today/
tomorrow.
Designed to enable readers to be able to
understand the importance of human rights to public health and examples of
areas where the relationship is particularly important or vulnerable -
humanitarian crises, reproductive health, universal health care and the
provision of health services, as well as introducing some of the legal aspects of
Human Rights.
Refugee Health: Designed to provide information on the threats to the health of
refugees and asylum seekers and canvass potential methods to help improve
the situation including the problem, details of health effects on refugees,
models of healthcare for settled refugees, politics and the action that can be
taken.
Course Design
This is an on-line CPD/CME package and materials are presented in the form of
video tuition and reading materials. Participants have access to all available
courses for a 12-month period from the date of enrolment for the package.
Who Should Enrol
- Any healthcare professional interested increasing their knowledge of medical ethics, professionalism as well as their CPD/CME points
- Public health decision makers
- Public health aspiring researchers
- Public health managers with a post graduate degree qualification