Core Module in Healthcare Ethics, Law & Professionalism (for Allied Health)

Module objectives

  • Develop a sound ethical and professional approach to practice.
  • Acquire essential knowledge of duty of care, consent, mental capacity, confidentiality, accountability, integrity and justice, grounded in the Singapore practice context.
  • Able to address the ethical and professional issues that occur in daily practice.

Who should attend

Allied health professionals: physiotherapists, speech therapists, and occupational therapists.

Why attend

  • Enhance your professional practice.
  • Acquire the Core Competencies for Healthcare Professionals in Clinical Ethics crafted by the MOH-appointed National Ethics Capability Committee (NECC) to enhance the capacity of healthcare professionals in clinical ethics.

Award

Participants who successfully complete this course will be awarded with a Certificate of Completion.

What the participants say

Upcoming Sessions

Dates: 5 & 7 December 2022

Time: 9.00am to 12.50pm

Course Brochure

Registration 

 

Organisers and trainers

  • This module is organised by the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics.
  • It is taught by experienced allied healthcare practitioners who have completed the NECC Educators’ Course in Healthcare Ethics, Law & Professionalism, and an experienced healthcare ethicist from the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics.

           

Module structure

Part 1

Part 2

Description

 Modules & Readings in Clinical Ethics

 Case-Based Interactive Workshop

Format

 Online learning videos

 Small group learning conducted via Zoom

Class size

 N/A

 Up to 24 (1 trainer to 8 participants)

Duration

 Approx. 4 hours

 2 half days (9am to 12.50pm)

Content

·       Methods and principles of clinical ethics

·       Consent and mental capacity

·       End of life

·       Communication and documentation

·       Other contextual concerns

·       Refusal of treatment

·       Professionalism

·       Respecting patient preferences

·       Nutritional care and the patient’s best 

        interests

 

Subsidised Fees After Skills Future Funding (incl. GST)

 

Singapore citizens aged 40  and above

Singapore citizens aged 39 and younger 

Singapore
PR

International Participants

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs³

Full Course Fee

$850.00 $850.00 $850.00 $850.00 $850.00

Less: SSG Grant Amount

($595.00) ($595.00) ($595.00) ($595.00)

Nett Course Fee

$255.00 $255.00 $255.00 $850.00 $255.00

7% GST on Nett Course Fee

$17.85 $17.85 $17.85 $59.50 $17.85

Total Nett Course Fee Payable including GST

$272.85 $272.85 $272.85 $909.50 $272.85

Less Additional Funding if Eligible Under Various Schemes

($170.00) ($170.00)

Total Nett Course Fee Payable, Including GST, after additional funding from the various funding schemes

$102.85 $272.85 $272.85 $909.50 $102.85

 

Contact Persons

Name

Contact for

Email

Tel No.

Dr Sumytra Menon

Programme & Curriculum

sumy.menon@nus.edu.sg

+65 6516 7597

Ms Fion Lai

Administrative Matters

fion.lai@nus.edu.sg

+65 65161395