Dealing with care questions: professional code, responsibility, and authorities

RIZIV Recognition Number: 25014113

How do you react when your moral compass clashes with practice? As a general practitioner, you constantly navigate between guidelines, patient expectations, and ethical choices.

This training provides you with a clear framework to apply ethics and deontology in practice. You will start with what deontology entails and how norms, values, and laws play a role in the healthcare context. You will discover how ethical dilemmas arise and learn to manage tension fields through concrete cases.

Concepts such as professional ethics, code of conduct, and bioethical advisory bodies will be clearly positioned within your professional responsibility.

Additionally, the training focuses on the legal rights of patients, such as the right to quality service, protection of personal privacy, information about health status, and more.

Finally, the course addresses your professional confidentiality as a general practitioner, with attention to your duty of silence and duty to speak.

This training provides you with the necessary support when confronted with ethical dilemmas.