| Module 1: Rights and Responsibilities |
 Lesson 1: Duties and Obligations of the Clinician, Including an Introduction to Patient Rights |
After completing this Module, learners should be able to:
1. Give an account of primary ethical obligations associated with good clinical practice
2. Explain the concept of patient rights and its relevance to the duties of a doctor |
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Lesson 2: Autonomy, Consent, Confidentiality and the Role of the Family |
After completing the Module, learners should be able to:
1) Describe ethical principles that underlie patient autonomy
2) Explain the consent process in the context of shared decision-making and the role of family
3) Outline the ethical principles relating to patient confidentiality |
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| Module 2: Ethico-Legal Frameworks |
Lesson 1: Ethical and Legal Frameworks |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1. Explain common terminology used in ethical and legal discourse
2. Describe principles of best practice in relation to ethical and legal standards |
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Lesson 2: Mental Health and Questions Around Capacity |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1) Explain the necessary conditions of capacity as applied to patients with mental health problems
2) Understand the concept of legal capacity (e.g. as applied to consent) |
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Lesson 3: Understanding Risk and Questions of Disclosure |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1. Explain why the ethics of risk is important to patient care
2. Understand the importance of risk communication and disclosure in the context of patient care |
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| Module 3: Beginning and End-of-Life |
Lesson 1: Advance Directives and the Right to Refuse Care |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1. Understand the role of advance directives, including how they are used
2. Explain the basis of the right to refuse care |
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Lesson 2: Issues around the Beginning and End of Life, including DNR |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1) Identify ethical dilemmas in the context of beginning and end-of-life care
2) Explain primary ethical concepts associated with beginning and end-of-life care and their relationship with the law |
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| Module 4: Governance |
Lesson 1: Research Governance and Protocols for the Protection of Human Subjects |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1. Understand basic principles of research governance, including ethical and legal requirements for studies that involve human subjects
2. Describe how best to protect participants’ best interests in research involving human subjects |
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Lesson 2: Negligence, Misconduct and Boundaries of Responsibility |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1) Describe the fundamentals of medical negligence
2) Provide a basic account of professional misconduct
3) Explain the importance of maintaining proper professional boundaries |
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Lesson 3: Questions of Probity and Professionalism, including Honesty and Transparency |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1) Explain the relevance of concepts such as probity, honesty and transparency in the context of medical practice
2) Describe how medical ethics and professionalism interconnect |
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| Module 5: Healthcare |
Lesson 1: Healthcare Organization and Questions of Justice |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1) Introduce and explain core health systems goals, functions, and typologies
2) Present and explore critical ethical considerations, such as questions of justice, to advancing health system goals in policy and practice |
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Lesson 2: Essentials of Public Health and Policy |
After completing the topic, learners should be able to:
1) Describe key concepts relevant to public health and policy
2) Understand how ethical reasoning relates to public health |
