Practicing Practical Professional Ethics

Tune up your ethical decision making skills with this practical session focusing on the obligations of a healthcare professional and the ethical decisions faced in everyday practice.  Topics will be woven with actual case studies and real stories from twenty years of regulating health care professionals in two states.
 

Topics will include:

• Exploring models and concepts of professionalism in health care practice;
• Discussion of the roles and responsibilities of the doctor patient relationship;
• The "slippery slope" of boundary issues and how they can destroy your professional practice and reputation;
• Concepts of accountability to patients, colleagues, health care reimbursement system, the dental profession and the law, with an emphasis on key provisions of the Arizona Dental Practice Act;
• Applying and interpreting the ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct; and
• Ethical obligations like informed consent, competence, over-diagnosis, dealing with bad outcomes

Kevin Earle, MBA, MPH:

Kevin Earle has been the Executive Director of the Arizona Dental Association since 2008. He is the former Executive Director of the Arizona Board of Dental Examiners. Before his move to Arizona, he spent twenty years regulating professionals in the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs. He was the Executive Director of the New Jersey Board of Dentistry for many years, and regulated several other categories of health care professionals, 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:

8:30-9:00am - Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00am-Noon - Course