Intensive Course in Medical Ethics, Boundaries and Professionalism

Registration is now closed. Please consider our September 2024 course.

The Doctor-Patient Relationship is a specially privileged relationship in our society. As a result, practitioners are afforded access to information and confidences by patients that are not available to anyone else. Along with this privilege comes a series of professional responsibilities for practitioners. More is expected of practitioners than from most other professionals in our society. The practice of medicine is governed by several important ethical precepts, including: confidentiality, beneficence, respect for patient autonomy, truth telling and the highest degree of professionalism. Practitioners work within the guidelines of these principles. Yet medical practice can also be challenged by these principles, particularly when two or more of them are in conflict. This expertly taught intensive course – liberally employing case presentations – focuses on applied ethics, from boundary issues to billing practices.

Simulation Exercise
An opportunity on Day 2 to practice clinical reasoning and professional boundary skills with a standardized patient regarding personal / professional / prescribing / sexual / and financial relationships and boundaries.  

Thursday, February 15, 2024, 8:00 AM - Friday, February 16, 2024, 3:30 PM, Broadcast Live Virtually

1. Describe the meaning and importance of medical professionalism
2. Discuss how conflict of interest may compromise professionalism
3. Identify three significant boundary issues and proper limits in relation to each
4. Discuss the few exceptions to the principle of confidentiality
5. Describe two important ethical issues with respect to operating a practice
6. List three elements that help to distinguish between “Usual and Customary” and “Health Care Fraud”
7. Describe errors practitioners frequently commit with regard to informed consent
8. Explain how autonomy and beneficence can easily come in conflict
9. Describe two issues of particular concern when prescribing controlled substances
10. Explain how patients behave in two or three typical drug scams and outline appropriate provider countermeasures

The registration fee for this course is $1700.

An administrative fee of $250 will be deducted from refunds for cancellations made within 14 days of the course.  All requests for refunds must be sent via email to [email protected].

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (15.25 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (15.25 hours)

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

CWRU School of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.