Online Course
Ethical Principles and Values
Understanding principles and values that underpin your ethical decision making.

3.5-4 hours

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Andrea Sturm
Course instructor

Andrea is a neurological physiotherapist from Austria. She has a special interest in Ethics and Mental Health.

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Introduction

Ethical dilemmas arise in our everyday practice. They can show up in many areas, such as between the patient and therapist on an interpersonal level, within ourselves in struggling intra-personally. Within our interdisciplinary team or the institution we are working in, on an inter-professional or intra-organisational realm. Or even as 'hot topics' in conversation on health or socio-political fields. For some of these ethical dilemmas it is challenging to find a solution that respects all viewpoints, values and duties of the people and institutions involved. For good ethical clinical decision making healthcare practitioners should utilise a knowledge of ethics that includes an understanding of the underlying basis for ethical principles such as respect for autonomy and justice, and an awareness of the influence one's personal beliefs and values might exert in the decision-making process.

Aims

This course explores ethical principles and values as a starting point to help you to identify and reflect on ethical issues in your everyday professional life.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, discussions and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Personal Moral Viewpoint
  2. Ethical Principles
  3. Humans Rights

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 3.5-4 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 3.5 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • explain the influence of moral agency on ethical decision making in clinical practice.
  • evaluate the impact of their own moral values on health care provision.
  • explain how the four principles of medical ethics provide a theoretical framework from which to analyse an ethical situation in health care.
  • describe 2 ways in which human rights and ethics contribute to public health.

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews
This course is a very good short and precise teaching on frailty. I learned a lot and did not feel overwhelmed with the amount of material.
Rafael Nicolas Koch
Physiotherapist
Australia
Thank you for this course! It has improved my clinical decision-making skills!
Bridget Chimwaza
Physiotherapist
Swaziland
The course is thorough! There were videos, articles and points that helped make it more interesting, especially the discussion room where you could read comments from other colleagues. It was a great experience! Thank you!
Olayinka Ogunsanya
Physiotherapist
Nigeria
This course was great. It teaches you valuable information to help in ethical decision making. The course teaches you a systematic way of going through the decision making and the principles and concepts to consider. By taking this course you become better at identifying ethical problems, ethical dilemmas and making correct decisions and reevaluating them. It can only make you a better physiotherapist to help treat your patients and put the needs of patients first in all circumstances.
Dan Zukiwsky
Physiotherapist
Canada
Great for getting your ethics CPDs up to date.
Physiotherapist
South Africa
I started this course during the COVID-19 lockdown as a means to gain the ethical CPD points I needed. I ended up spending more time going through all the articles because for the first time I found ethics fascinating. Many thanks!
Annelie Benade
Physiotherapist
South Africa
An interesting course that makes you question your own ethics. Wonderful to be able to interact and discuss rather than read endless articles. Give it a try!
Dale Tyndall
Physiotherapist
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As medical professionals we all have an innate sense of the four principles of medical ethics; putting them into practice in the context of the situation is something we learn with time. This course provides a great overview of putting our innate senses into practice.
Amanda Wilkinson-Thompson
Physiotherapist
South Africa
This was a really great approach in terms of combining morals and ethics!
Shelley Mason
Physiotherapist
South Africa
A very knowledgeable course about ethical dilemmas in clinical practice that a Physiotherapist can face and how to tackle them more efficiently and morally.
Jyoti Bora
Physiotherapist
India
Thank you to Physiopedia for always being so insightful and allowing us to further our education from the comfort and safety of our home.
Brita Juta
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This is a great refreshing course, thank you!
Physiotherapist
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