Section Name Description
Module 1: Rights and Responsibilities File Lesson Summary: Module 1: Rights and Responsibilities

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Module 1: Lesson 1: Duties and obligations of the clinician, including introduction to patient right URL Ethical Considerations in Clinical Research: A Comprehensive Review

Read Introduction, Section 2 "General Ethical Issues and Review Procedures" with Tables 1-2, and Section 3 "Ethical Considerations for Clinical Evaluation of Medical Products" with Table 3. (28 min)

American Journal of Public Health Research - 2022
URL Good Medical Practice

Read pages 7-28 covering "The duties of medical professionals" and all four domains (Knowledge/skills, Patients/partnership, Colleagues/safety, Trust/professionalism). (40 minutes)

General Medical Council
URL Good medical ethics, from the inside out—and back again

Read pages 48-49 ("Taking Seriously the Internal Morality of Medicine") only; skip remainder. (9 minutes)

Journal of Medical Ethics- 2014
URL Patient Rights and Ethics

Read "Introduction," complete "Synopsis of Medical Ethics Principles that Provide Justifications for Patient Rights" (all subsections), "Informed Consent Prior to Treatment," and "Clinical Significance." (37 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2024
URL Patient-Physician Relationships

Read full text of Opinions 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, and 1.1.7 (click through each). (20 minutes)

AMA Code of Medical Ethics - 2025
URL ICH E6 (R3) Guideline for good clinical practice (GCP)

(2 hours and 55 minutes)

European Medicines Agency Science Medicines Health - 2025
URL Human Rights Act

(1 hour 15 minutes)

Legislation Gov UK - Originally published 1998 and most recently updated 2025
URL UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

(15 minutes)

United Nations
URL Exploring patients’ rights awareness and implementations amongst hospitalized patients in Northern Palestine: insights from a local perspective

(41 minutes)

Springer Nature Link - 2024
URL Privacy and confidentiality of emergency department patient information: Contemporary considerations and challenges

(23 minutes)

Science Direct - 2024
Module 1: Lesson 2: Autonomy, Consent, Confidentiality and the Role of the FamilyFile URL The Belmont Report

Read Part B: Basic Ethical Principles, Section 1 (Respect for Persons) in its entirety, then read Part C: Applications, Section 1 (Informed Consent) including all three subsections (Information, Comprehension, and Voluntariness). (19 minutes)

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services - Originally published 1979 and last reviewed 2025
URL Patient Rights and Ethics

Read the following sections: "Respect for Patient Autonomy," "Informed Consent Prior to Treatment," "Treatment Refusal (by Both Patient and Physician)," and the "Four models of the physician-patient relationship" subsection under "Beneficence." (14 minutes)

National Library of Medicine -  2024
URL Module 1: Essential Elements of Shared Decision Making [VIDEO]

Watch the entire video. (19 minutes)

Chanel AHRQ Patient Safety -  2024
URL Consent and shared decision-making

Readh the entire content. (12 minutes)

Medical Protection
URL Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making in Modern Medicine: Case-Based Approach, Current Gaps and Practical Proposal

Read "Methodological Proposal" (Steps 1-3 with legal considerations), "Case vignettes" (both cases), and "Gap #3: Informed consent process for vulnerable populations." (25 minutes)

Science Direct - 2025
URL Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information

Read Introduction (through "Definition of PHI"), "Patient Rights under HIPAA", "HIPAA and Communication With Patients", and "Pearls" sections. (20 minutes)

General Medical Council
URL Introduction to Patient Confidentiality and Privacy | Lecturio [VIDEO]

Watch the entire video. (9 minutes)

Chanel Lecturio Medical - 2023
URL Patient Confidentiality

Read: Introduction, "Where is the HIPAA Privacy Rule Applicable?", "Patient Rights under HIPAA", "Contents and Authorizations", "HIPAA and Communication With Patients", "When can PHI be disclosed without consent?", and "Inadvertent Disclosure". (15 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2023
URL TCPS 2 (2022) – Chapter 5: Privacy and Confidentiality

(38 minutes)

Government of Canada- Panel on Research Ethics  - 2022
URL Informed Consent

(1 hour 24 minutes)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  - Originally published 2011 and last reviewed 2025
Module 2: Ethico-Legal Frameworks File Lesson Summary: Module 2: Ethico-Legal Frameworks

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Module 2: Lesson 1: Ethical and Legal Frameworks URL GLOSSARY OF TERMS RELATED TO ETHICS AND INTEGRITY IN EDUCATION

Read the "How to use the glossary" section and the complete "Glossary" section (all 76 terms), paying special attention to terms with multiple definitions and the implication boxes that distinguish between legal and ethical perspectives. (50 minutes)

GLOSSARY OF TERMS RELATED TO ETHICS AND INTEGRITY IN EDUCATION - 2024
URL Principles of Clinical Ethics and Their Application to Practice

Read "The Fundamental Principles of Ethics," "Framework for Ethical Problem-Solving," and "Conflicts and Application to Practice." (20 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2020
URL CIOMS – International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans (2016)

Read Guidelines 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, and Appendix 1. (46 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2016
URL ICH harmonised guideline integrated addendum to ICH E6(R1): Guideline for Good Clinical Practice ICH E6(R2)

Read "Principles of ICH GCP" and Annex 1 (all four subsections: IRB/IEC, Investigator, Sponsor, Data Governance). (36 minutes)

Good Clinical Practice Network - European Medicines Agency - 2018
URL Standards and Operational Guidance for Ethics Review of Health-Related Research with Human Participants

 Read Standards 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, and Annex 1. (40 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2011
URL World Medical Association Medical Ethics Manual

(3 hours 8 minutes)

World Medical Association Medical Ethics Manual - 2015
URL A very short introduction to ethics [open access]

(4 hours 28 minutes)

Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Blackburn - 2001
URL Medical Ethics: A very short introduction [open access]

(3 hours 56 minutes)

Tony Hope Medical Ethics a Very Short Introduction - 2004
URL 30-second philosophies [open access]

(3 hours)

30-SECOND PHILOSOPHIES The 50 most thought-provoking philosophies, each explained in half a minute Consultant Editor Barry Loewer - 2010
Module 2: Lesson 2: Mental Health and questions around Capacity URL Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice

Read Chapter 4 Quick Summary, sections 4.11-4.25 (two-stage test and four capacity conditions), and Chapter 13 sections 13.1-13.7, 13.26-13.37 (mental health application). (60 minutes)

Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice - 2007
URL Code of practice: Mental Health Act 1983

Read "The Mental Capacity Act" (pages 32-33), "Attorneys and deputies" (pages 20-21), "Saying what you want before you are ill" (pages 24-25), "Patients who cannot agree to treatment" (page 48), "The Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act" (page 50), and definitions (pages 65, 68). (25 minutes)

Code of Practice: Mental Health Act 1983 - 2015
URL Mental Capacity Act, 2005

Read Part 1: Section 1 "The principles" (all subsections 1-6), Section 2 "People who lack capacity" (subsections 1-4), and Section 3 "Inability to make decisions" (subsections 1 and 4) to understand the statutory legal framework, five principles, and the four-part functional test. (25 minutes)

Legislation Gov Uk - 2025
URL Code of practice: Mental Health Act 1983

Read the entire content. (35 minutes)

Code of Practice: Mental Health Act 1983 - 2015
URL Decision making and consent

Read "The Seven Principles of Decision Making and Consent" (all seven principles with focus on Principle 5), then read the section "Circumstances that affect the decision-making process (part 3 of 4)" specifically paragraphs 76-86 covering mental capacity definition, presuming capacity, and assessing capacity to understand clinical application of the capacity framework. (30 minutes)

General Medical Council - 2015
URL Assessing decisional capacity in patients with substance use disorders

Read the entire content. (21 minutes)

Current Psychiatry - 2019
URL Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice

(6 hours 33 minutes)

Mental Health, human rights, and legislation - 2023
URL Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

(1 hour 10 minutes)

United Nations - 2008
URL The WHO QualityRights Tool Kit

(3 hours 32 minutes)

Who QualityRights Tool Kit - 2012
Module 2: Lesson 3: Understanding Risk and Questions of Disclosure URL Understanding and managing clinical risk, World Health Organisation,

Read the entire content. (13 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2021
URL Informed Consent

Read the entire content. (27 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2024
URL Decision-Making Capacity

Read the entire content. (3 minutes)

Vermont Ethics Network
URL Decision making and consent

Read the entire content. (55 minutes)

General Medical Council
URL Handbook for good clinical research practice

(3 hours 25 minutes)

Handbook for Good Clinical Research Practice (GPC) - 2005
URL Patient Safety Curriculum Guide

(15 hours 53 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2011
URL NHS Patient Safety Strategy: 2021 update

(49 minutes)

NHS Patient Safety strategy - 2021
Module 3: Beginning and Ending of life File Lesson Summary: Module 3: Beginning and Ending of life

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Module 3: Lesson 1: Advance Directives and the Right to Refuse Care URL Mental Capacity Act (2005)

Read Sections 24 ("Advance decisions to refuse treatment: general"), 25 ("Validity and applicability of advance decisions"), and 26 ("Effect of advance decisions") in their entirety to understand the definition, legal requirements, validity criteria, and practical application of advance directives. (50 minutes)

Legislation Gov Uk - 2025
URL Article 21 and Constitutional validity of Right to Die

Read the entire content. (5 minutes)

Article 21 and Constitutional Validity of Right to Die - 2017
URL NHS Choices on end of life care

Read the entire content. (9 minutes)

NHS - 2023
URL NHS Consent to treatment

Read the entire content. (17 minutes)

NHS - 2022
URL Autonomy in Moral and Political Philosophy

(1 hour 23 minutes)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 2025
URL The Ethics of Clinical Ethics

(1 hour 11 minutes)

Springer Nature Link - 2024
URL The Right to Refuse: Understanding Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives on Patient Autonomy in Emergency Care

(35 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2023
Module 3: Lesson 2: Issues around the Beginning and End of Life, including DNR URL Abortion, Bioethics, and Personhood: A Philosophical Reflection

Read the entire content. (31 minutes)

The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity - 2001
URL Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making

Read Introduction, "Emotional difficulties in end of life decision making," "Neonates, children and young people" (paragraphs 90-108), "Meeting patients' nutrition and hydration needs" (paragraphs 109-127), "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation" (paragraphs 128-145), and "Resolving disagreements" sections. (50 minutes)

General Medical Council
URL Ethical considerations at the end-of-life care

Read Introduction, "Universal ethical principles," "Decision-making during end-of-life care" (all six categories), and "Ethical decision-making in different healthcare settings" sections. (30 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2021
URL Chapter 5 Palliative and End of Life Care

Read the entire content. (33 minutes)

AMA Code of Medical Ethics
URL 36.4: Legal and Ethical Considerations

Read the entire content. (29 minutes)

LibreTexts Health
URL Ethical and legal issues in end-of-life care

Read the entire content. (13 minutes)

ScienceDirect - 2010
URL Brain Death

Read the entire content. (7 minutes)

NHS - 2022
URL Advance Directives

Read the entire content. (37 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2016
URL Personal Identity and Ethics

(58 minutes)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Phylosophy - 2025
URL The beginning of the End (of Life Care Strategy)

(11 minutes)

Journal of Clinical Nursing - 2009
URL Abortion

(11 minutes)

NHS - 2024
URL module 1 | Activity 12: Legal and ethical issues and end of life

(4 minutes)

PCC4U Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates
URL The Definition of Death

(1 hour 33 minutes)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Published 2007 Reviewed 2021
URL Euthanasia and assisted suicide

(3 minutes)

NHS - 2023
Module 4: Governance File Lesson Summary: Module 4: Governance

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Module 4: Lesson 1: Research governance and protocols for the protection of human subjects URL WMA Declaration of Helsinki- Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects

Read the entire content. (20 minutes)

World Medical Association - 2024
URL Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

Read the entire content. (23 minutes)

UNESCO - 2006
URL 2016 International ethical guidelines for health-related research involving humans

Read Guidelines 4 (Risks and Benefits), 6 (Health Needs), 7 (Community Engagement), 9 (Informed Consent), 14 (Compensation for Harms), 15 (Vulnerable Persons), 16 (Adults Incapable of Consent), and 17 (Children and Adolescents) with their commentaries. (1 hour 45 minutes)

CIOMS - 2016
URL Standards and operational guidance for ethics review of health-related research with human participants

Read Standard 7 (Ethical Basis for Decision-Making) all subsections, and Standard 10 (Researchers' Responsibilities) sections 2-5. (35 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2011
URL The Belmont Report

Explore and interact with all tabs and links and read all content. (40 minutes)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - 2025
URL Handbook for Good Clinical Research Practice, 2005

(3 hours 36 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2005
URL EU Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations

(1 hour 45 minutes)

Legislation Gov Uk - 2025
URL Human Subjects Research - Home page

(2 minutes)

NIH Grants and Founding - 2024
URL Ethical Research Involving Children Compendium

(7 hours 42 minutes)

Unicef - 2013
Module 4: Lesson 2: Negligence, Misconduct and Boundaries of Responsibility URL Medical Malpractice

Read the entire content. (18 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2022
URL Medical negligence in healthcare organizations and its impact on patient safety and public health: a bibliometric study

Read the entire content. (33 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2021
URL Maintaining a professional boundary between you and your patient (summary)

Read the entire content. (17 minutes)

General Medical Council
URL Good Medical Practice

Read the entire content. (47 minutes)

General Medical Council
URL Medical Negligence: A Conceptual Analysis

(26 minutes)

Journal of Advanced Zoology - 2024
URL Medical Negligence in Nigeria Legal System: Exploring the Obstacles to Successful Litigation

(42 minutes)

SSRN - 2025
URL Legal Imperatives of Medical Negligence and Medical Malpractice

(24 minutes)

Nigerian Journal of Medicine - 2022
URL Costs of clinical negligence

(1 hour 40 minutes)

National Audit Office - 2025
URL Patient safety

(12 hour)

World Health Organization - 2024
URL Medical Ethics: A very short introduction

(2 minutes)

AMA Code of Medical Ethics
URL What drives unprofessional behaviour in healthcare?

(6 minutes)

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research - 2023
URL Chapter 6Strategies to mitigate, manage and prevent unprofessional behaviours, and how and why they work

(1 hour 2 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2024
URL Health care professionals’ perceptions of unprofessional behaviour in the clinical workplace

(37 minutes)

Plos One - 2023
Module 4: Lesson 3: Questions of probity and professionalism, including honesty and transparency URL Transparency in Health Care

Read the entire content. (3 minutes)

AMA Code of Medical Ethics
URL Duties of Candour in Healthcare: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth?

Read Section II "The Value of Honesty in Healthcare," Section III introduction on candour definition, and Section III.A "Professional Duty of Candour" including the Robbie Powell case. (35 minutes)

Pub Med Central - 2022
URL Honesty

Read the entire content. (21 minutes)

Dental Protection - 2018
URL Chapter 1: Ethics and Professionalism in Healthcare

Read the entire content. (6 minutes)

Health 1010
URL Medical Ethics

Read the Introduction, "Issues of Concern" (subsections on professional codes, authority in ethics, and ethical perspectives), "Application of Medical Ethics" (Beauchamp & Childress's four principles and Analysis 3 on fiduciary relationships), and "Enhancing Healthcare Team Outcomes". (25 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2024
URL Understanding medical professionalism

Read the entire content. (17 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2025
URL Honesty and Transparency, Indispensable to the Clinical Mission—Part I

(45 minutes)

Eastern Virginia Medical School ILL - 2022
URL Promoting Professionalism and Ethical Practices in Medicine: Indian doctors from across the globe working together

(3 hours 21 minutes)

Leadership for Health - 2014
URL The essential role of medical ethics education in achieving professionalism: the Romanell Report

(41 minutes)

Academic Medicine - 2015
URL Ethics Education Programme

(2 minutes)

Unesco
Module 5: Healthcare File Lesson Summary: Module 5: Healthcare

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Module 5: Lesson 1: Healthcare Organization and Questions of Justice URL Chapter 7Pillars of the Health System

Read the chapter introduction and all four main sections titled "Information, Surveillance, and Research," "Management of Health Services," "Human Resources," and "Financing" in their entirety, focusing on the framework explanations and skipping the embedded boxes if time is limited. (50 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2006
URL Functions, structure, and physical resources of healthcare Organizations

Read the "Introduction" section, the complete "The Performance of Health Systems: Six Core Domains" section (including all six domains and Exhibit 1.1), and the full "The Challenge of Organizing Health Services Resources to Achieve Optimum Performance" section (covering Hospitals, Primary Care Provision, and Regionalization subsections). (40 minutes)

The Global Healthcare Manager
URL INTRODUCTION: What is Health Justice?

Read the entire content. (18 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2022
URL Just health: meeting health needs fairly

Read the entire content. (6 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2008
URL Justice, Inequality, and Health

Read Section 6 (Justice and Domestic Health Inequalities) including all subsections on free-standing and derivative approaches, and Section 7 (Individual Responsibility and Health Behaviors); skim Section 5 (Causal Pathways) for understanding of social determinants and stress mechanisms. (45 minutes)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 2021
URL Justice and Access to Health Care

Read Sections 3 (Does Justice Require Universal Access to Health Care?), 4 (What Kinds of Health Care Do We Owe Each Other?), and 5 (Is There a Right to Health or Health Care?) in full; skim Section 1 (What Societies Do About Access to Care) for context on non-financial barriers and social determinants. (42 minutes)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 2017
URL Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage

Read Chapters 2 and 6 in full, from Chapter 3 read sections on service selection criteria through combining criteria including Boxes 3.1-3.4, and from Chapter 7 read Box 7.2 on Accountability for Reasonableness. (90 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2014
URL Universal health coverage (UHC)

Read the entire content. (6 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2025
URL Universal Health Coverage for Health Equity: From Principle to Practice; A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Read the entire content. (9 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2022
URL Justice: a key consideration in health policy and systems research ethics

Read the Abstract, Introduction, section "HPSR's underlying moral commitment to health and social justice" (including all key definitions), Table 1 (Essential justice considerations for HPSR projects and programmes) in its entirety, and the section "Practical Applications and Policy Implications" with a focus on hidden power analysis and creating lasting change. (35 minutes)

BMJ Journals - 2020
URL Reinforcing collaboration on Universal Health Coverage to deliver greater global health equity and health security

(12 minutes)

IFPMA - 2023
URL Global Health Ethics Key Issues

(51 minutes)

Global Health Ethics Key Issues - 2015
URL Ethical issues with geographical variations in the provision of health care services

(34 minutes)

Springer Nature Link - 2022
URL Ethical Frameworks and Global Health: A Narrative Review of the “Leave No One Behind” Principle

(49 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2024
URL Patient Rights and Ethics

(57 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2024
Module 5: Lesson 2: Essentials of Public Health and Policy URL What is public health? a scoping review

Read the entire content. (29 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2023
URL The Importance of Policy Change for Addressing Public Health Problems

Read the entire content. (22 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2018
URL Chapter 3The Ethics of Health Promotion: From Public Health to Health Care

Read the entire content. (40 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2021
URL Ethical Dimensions of Public Health Actions and Research: Need for Guidelines in Indian Context

Read the entire content. (16 minutes)

Journal of Comprehensive Health - 2024
URL Chapter 2: Ethical Decision Making

Read the entire content. (10 minutes)

Health 1010
URL Public Health Ethics

Read the entire content. (3 minutes)

Scientific Integrity at CDC - 2025
URL Public Health Ethics- Global Cases, Practice, and Context

(1 hour 41 minutes)

LibreTexts Health
URL Ethical challenges in scene understanding for public health AI

(53 minutes)

National Library of Medicine - 2025