Ethics and Legislation for Doctors (Oct 23, 2023)

Ethics and Legislation for Doctors is organized by Etikutbildningar, Physicians' Institute for Professional Development in Healthcare / Lakarnas institut for professionell utveckling i sjukvarden (LIPUS) and will be held on Oct 23, 2023 at Elite Grand Hotel Norrkoping, Norrköping, East Gotanmaan lan, Sweden.

Description:
Ethics is a central part of health care. According to Swedish and international legislation and the codex, the professions of doctors and healthcare personnel must be carried out from an ethical and professional approach. The medical competence and experience are the basis for the professional activities of a doctor and other professional categories, but must also be based on universal ethical principles and values. Practicing one's profession in a satisfactory manner also requires knowledge of legislation and guidelines - which you need to have a knowledge and understanding of so that you can provide care and handle each patient based on the right conditions.

The more complex health care becomes, the more difficult questions arise in care. Ethical values ??and principles are pitted against each other and create uncertainty about what is the most ethically justified way to handle a certain situation. Current legislation also provides guidelines on a more general level, but at the same time creates uncertainty in how they should be interpreted in situations that arise. This together creates an increasing need to discuss and analyze situations from various relevant aspects, clinical, ethical and legal. Discussions and analyzes are also best done in teams where everyone has an equally important role in arriving at what is best for the patient. Ethical analysis and application of legislation is a structured activity and requires knowledge, experience and time.

The fact that increasingly complex ethical questions arise within modern healthcare is also something that professional guidelines have taken note of. The guidelines for ST doctors contain both the requirements for increased knowledge in ethics and ethical analysis and knowledge of the laws that apply to one's own specialty or occupational category.
This course provides increased knowledge and the ability to handle ethical issues through ethical analysis and an increased knowledge of the laws and guidelines that apply.

Course goals - expected results
Overall goals
The overall aim of the course is to provide knowledge and skills in ethics, ethical analysis and relevant legislation for healthcare and for the individual participant's specialty.

Results for the participant:
After completing the course, you as a participant have gained the following knowledge and skills.
Knowledge goals:
• knowledge of ethical values ??and principles and their importance for healthcare
• knowledge of ethical issues and dilemmas – and how to analyze and deal with them in different ways
•  knowledge of central legislation in healthcare and its importance
•  knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations for the individual participant's specialty
• increased knowledge of methods to apply current legislation, regulations and regulations to occurring situations in the participant's everyday life and activities

Skill goals:
• ability and skill to identify ethical issues and dilemmas
• ability and skill in analyzing ethical cases in different ways - and handling them -
increased ability to apply current legislation, regulations and regulations to occurring situations in the participant's everyday life and activities

Attitudinal objectives:
- to combine the lessons learned from this course with the medical competence and experience - and thus practice their profession based on an ethical and professional approach

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.