Ethics in Practice: Exploring Public Health Ethics in BC
This online course is a supplement to A Public Health Ethics Guide for British Columbia and is intended for people working in public health on lands colonially known as British Columbia (BC), Canada. The online course provides an overview of values, principles, and ethical approaches to support public health practice. It also outlines a structured Ethical Resolution Process to identify and address ethical issues in public health settings. The application of this process is further explored through three fictional public health ethics scenarios.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize values and practice principles relevant to public health practice.
- Identify ethical dilemmas in public health.
- Engage interested parties in resolving ethical dilemmas in public health.
- Gather information necessary to resolve ethical dilemmas in public health.
- Apply five approaches to ethical reasoning to analyze options for resolving ethical dilemmas in public health.
- Identify, implement, and evaluate ethically justified resolutions to ethical dilemmas in public health.
This online course was developed through a participatory research project, conducted collaboratively by researchers at The University of British Columbia (Faculty of Medicine and School of Nursing), Provincial Health Services Authority (Ethics Service, Indigenous Health, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control), First Nations Health Authority, and members of Indigenous, disability, senior, and newcomer communities. This work was supported by the Pacific Public Health Foundation.
The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by UBC CPD. You may claim a maximum of 2.5 hours (credits are automatically calculated). This activity meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 2.5 Mainpro+® Certified Activity credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.