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University of Melbourne

  • 37% international / 63% domestic

Clinical Ethics and COVID-19

  • Non-Award

What should I do when PPE is limited?How should I prioritise my family's well-being and doing my job?How do I work with resource scarcity? The COVID-19 pandemic has created new clinical ethics challenges for clinicians. Public health considerations are shaping individual patient care.

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About this course

What should I do when PPE is limited?
How should I prioritise my family's well-being and doing my job?
How do I work with resource scarcity?

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new clinical ethics challenges for clinicians. Public health considerations are shaping individual patient care. Situations of resource scarcity have brought fair allocation into the foreground of clinical practice. Clinicians' personal risk of infection has generated difficult ethical challenges.

This online course aims to provide structured ways of navigating the clinical ethics challenges generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It incorporates short discussions of key ethical issues and concepts, with practical ethics tools for decision-making.