Ethics in Healthcare and Social Services

About this programme

The Ethics in Healthcare and Social Services program is geared toward current healthcare employees. It was developed in partnership with Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) and is delivered as a one-year competency-based micro-certification composed of 4 individual micro-credential courses. Please visit the Continuing Education page Introduction to Practical Healthcare Ethics for program availability. In this course, students will examine ethics theories, frameworks and decision-making tools using case studies from healthcare and social service sectors to analyze ethical dilemmas. In this course, students will appraise ethics issues unique to specialized patient/client resident populations, and compare how different ethical approaches address the ethics themes. In this course, students will examine organizational governance documents and policies using an ethical lens and analyze system-level ethics dilemmas such as the allocation of scarce resources. In this course, students will learn to resolve ethical dilemmas using consultation, facilitation, mediation, and negotiation skills, and reflect on how cognitive biases influence a person’s ethical decision-making processes. The Ethics in Healthcare and Social Services program is geared toward current healthcare employees. There are no prerequisites for this program. It is recommended that the learners take the courses in order (Courses 1-4); however, if the learner has previously completed the advanced training in theoretical ethics, they only need to take Courses 3 (Organizational Ethics) and 4 (Healthcare Consultation and