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Overview
What you will study
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new clinical ethics challenges for clinicians. Public health considerations are shaping individual patient care. Situations of resource scarcity have brought fair allocation into the foreground of clinical practice. Clinicians’ personal risk of infection has generated difficult ethical challenges. This Clinical Ethics and COVID-19 course offered by University of Melbourne incorporates short discussions of key ethical issues and concepts, with practical ethics tools for decision-making.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Clinical ethics principles
- What's different in a pandemic?
- Steps of ethical decision-making
- Balancing and moral regret
- Health resources in a pandemic
- Ethical criteria for resource allocation
- Fair process
- Duty to provide care
- Protecting health professionals
- Balancing health professionals' safety with the duty to provide care
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Public Health Ethics View 5 other Short Courses in Ethics in AustraliaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- CRICOS: 00116K
- Designed for clinicians in hospital settings and primary care. It is intended for medical, nursing and allied health staff.
- It would also be useful for students training for these health professions.
Tuition Fee
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International
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 AUD for the full programme during 1 days. -
National
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 AUD for the full programme during 1 days.
- This course is free for the public.
Funding
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