Ethics and Professionalism
California Medical Ethics and Professionalism (ME-22 CA)
BackNote: This course is for California clinicians only. Non-California clinicians, click here to enroll in our Medical Ethics and Professionalism (ME-22) course.
Designed specifically for California licensees, this comprehensive course addresses and remediates issues rooted in lack of adherence to laws, rules, guidelines, codes, or policies. Participants arrive at the seminar primed by the pre-course readings, assignments, and self-assessment exercises—springboards for the process of introspection and self-critique. During the course, participants examine how and why their professional practices, responses to stress, and personal or situational factors initially put them at risk for exercising poor judgment or rationalizing improper behavior. During the course, each participant develops a Personalized Protection Plan©, an action plan they will implement to prevent future lapses in judgement. Participants present their plan at the conclusion of the course as their final oral examination to the faculty and class in a peer-review format.
California Medical Board approved to meet the Title 16, California Code of Regulations (CCR) section 1358.1 requirements.
PBI is committed to providing interactive, individualized, impactful education. To facilitate this, our Medical Ethics (ME-22 CA) course size is limited to 12 participants.
California pharmacists click here to enroll in our California Pharmacy Board approved course.
Non-California clinicians, click here to enroll in our Medical Ethics (ME-22) Course.
Course Editions
ME-22
- Pre-course assignments, 8 hours
- Two-day virtual live course
- Optional, post-course follow-up material will be sent via email at six and twelve-month intervals
ME-22 Extended
- Pre-course assignments, 8 hours
- Two-day virtual live course
- Post-course, weekly faculty-led group teleconference seminars (MAS), one hour for 12 weeks
- Optional, post-course follow-up material will be sent via email at six and twelve-month intervals
Reasons for Referral
- Bending or breaking laws or rules (Noncompliance with orders, agreements, deadlines)
- Driving under the influence (DUI/DWI)
- Financial improprieties (Fraud, inappropriate billing, over diagnosing, over-treating, waiving copays)
- HIPAA or confidentiality violations
- Misrepresentation (Cheating, falsification, inaccurate or inappropriate advertising, lying or omission of information)
- Practicing with an expired license
Professions This Course Is Suitable For
This course is multi-disciplinary and appropriate for California-licensed clinicians, including but not limited to: physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, physician assistants, mental health providers, EMTs, and physical therapists. California pharmacists click here to enroll in our California Pharmacy Board approved course.
Learning Objectives
- Comply with standards of practice and codes of ethics
- Improve clinical decision making by minimizing negative influencers
- Adhere to professional ethics with resultant improvements in professional-patient interaction, which can improve clinical outcomes
- Reduce their potential transgressions through the development of systems that can be implemented into clinical practice
- Become aware of the early warning signs indicative of ethical dilemmas and boundary problems
- Create an ethics-based Formula© and implement a tiered Personalized Protection Plan to maintain ethical integrity
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and Professional Boundaries, Inc. The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine designates these live activities each for a maximum of 34 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in activity.
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