OVERVIEW

Ethics and Professionalism (ME-22 Extended) is organized by Professional Boundaries Education (PBI) and will be held from Aug 22 - 23, 2026.

Description:
PBI Ethics and Professionalism (ME-22) is a two-day comprehensive ethics program grounded in the premise that all clinicians have the potential to commit an ethical violation or violate professional expectations. This course addresses and remediates issues rooted in lack of adherence to laws, rules, guidelines, codes, or policies. Participants arrive at the seminar primed by the pre-course readings, assignments, and self-assessment exercises—springboards for the process of introspection and self-critique. During the course, participants examine how and why their professional practices, responses to stress, and personal or situational factors initially put them at risk for exercising poor judgment or rationalizing improper behavior. Participants’ insights drive the composition of their own stratified Personalized Protection Plan©, which they present at the conclusion of the course as their final oral examination to the faculty and class in a peer-review format.

Learning Objectives:

Comply with standards of practice and codes of ethics
Improve clinical decision making by minimizing negative influencers
Adhere to professional ethics with resultant improvements in professional-patient interaction, which can improve clinical outcomes
Reduce their potential transgressions through the development of systems that can be implemented into clinical practice
Become aware of the early warning signs indicative of ethical dilemmas and boundary problems
Create an ethics-based Formula© and implement a tiered Personalized Protection Plan© to maintain ethical integrity