Practicing Practical Professional Ethics

5/14/2014 • 3 CEUs

Tune up your ethical decision making skills with this practical session focusing on the obligations of a health care professional and the ethical decisions faced in everyday practice.

This session will include actual case studies, illustrations and group discussion.

Topics will include:

  • Exploring models and concept of professionalism in health care practice;
  • Discussion of the roles and responsibilities of the doctor patient relationship;
  • The "slippery slope" of boundary issues;
  • Concepts of accountability to patients, colleagues, health care reimbursement system, the dental profession and the law;
  • Applying and interpreting the ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct; and
  • Ethical obligations like informed consent, competence, dealing with bad outcomes and mistakes, and patient confidentiality.

Kevin B. Earle, MBA, MPH:

Kevin Earle became the Executive Director of the Arizona Dental Association in 2008, a "constituent society" of the American Dental Association that represents approximately 70% of the practicing dentists in Arizona.   The Association has close to 2500 dentist members and approximately 2,000 allied members.


Prior to this role, Mr. Earle spent twenty year regulating professionals with the Arizona Board of Dental Examiners, and before that with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, where he served as the Executive Director of the Board of Dentistry for many years, and regulated several other categories of health care professionals over the years, including the Board of Medical Examiners. He holds a BA in Public Affairs from George Washington University, an MBA from Rutgers University and an MPH with a concentration in health policy from Columbia University.

Schedule:

5:30-6:00pm - Registration

6:00-9:00pm - Course



 
 


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