Learning Center

Learners will identify the leadership roles a physician might play in creating an ethical practice environment and recognize the multiple loyalties of physician leaders.

Learners will describe how institutional policies shape the practice environment and recognize how a physician might play a leading role in creating an ethical practice environment.

Learners will know how to distinguish between privacy and confidentiality, and describe the physician's role in maintaining a patient's privacy and confidentiality.

Learners will recognize when physicians need consent to disclose patient information and describe the physician's responsibilities when there has been a breach of privacy.

Learners will explain the limits, guidelines and expectations when treating colleagues, family and self. 

Learners will examine conditions that can impair physicians' health and ability to fulfill professional responsibilities and describe physicians' responsibilities to themselves and their colleagues to ensure that care is safely provided.