Course Outline
- ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct
- The Principles of Ethics
- The Code of Professional Conduct
- Advisory Opinions
- Patient Autonomy
- Patient Involvement
- Patient Records
- Education
- Consultation and Referral
- Second Opinions
- Use of Auxiliary Personnel
- Personal Impairment
- Ability to Practice
- Patient Abandonment
- Beneficence
- Community Service
- Government of a Profession
- Research and Development
- Patents and Copyrights
- Child Abuse
- Justice
- Patient Selection
- HIV Positive Patients
- Emergency Service
- Justifiable Criticism
- Expert Testimony
- Contingent Fees
- Rebates and Split Fees
- Veracity
- Representation of Care
- Dental Amalgam
- Unsubstantiated Representations
- Representation of Fees
- Waiver of Copayment
- Overbilling
- Fee Differential
- Treatment Dates
- Dental Procedures
- Unnecessary Services
- Disclosure of Conflict of Interest
- Devices and Therapeutic Methods
- Reporting Adverse Reactions
- Marketing or Sale of Products
- Professional Announcement
- Advertising
- Articles and Newsletters
- Examples of “False or Misleading”
- Unearned Nonhealth Degrees
- Fellowships
- Referral Services
- HIV Test Results
- Name of Practice
- Dentist Leaving Practice
- Announcement of Specialization and Limitation of practice
- General Standards
- Standards for Multiple-Specialty Announcements
- Dual Degree Dentist
- General Practitioner Announcement of Credentials
Case No. 1: Failure to disclose, failure to provide proper assessment of treatment options, failure to maintain proper patient records, improper diagnosis
Case No. 2: Failure to complete CE requirement
Case No. 3: Prescribing excessive and inappropriate medications; improper documentation
Case No. 4: Improper diagnosis, inappropriate treatment
Case No. 5: Inadequate treatment, excessive billing, refusal to release patient records
Case No. 6: Failure to detect cancerous lesions
Case No. 7: False declaration under penalty of perjury, failure to complete CE requirement
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Enunciate the Principles of Ethics and the Code of Professional Conduct for dentists.
- Distinguish between ethical and legal obligations of a dentist.
- Define patient autonomy and describe the dentist’s obligation to maintain patient self-governance.
- Discuss the dentist’s responsibility in maintaining confidentiality of patient records.
- Describe the dentist’s ethical obligations with respect to consultation, referral and second opinion.
- List 5 duties of a dentist to promote the patient’s welfare.
- Describe a dentist’s ethical obligation to HIV-positive patients and to patients in an emergency.
- List 6 types of unprofessional conduct with respect to dental fees charged to patients.
- Describe the dentist’s ethical duties in the marketing or sale of product to dental patients.
- Provide 4 examples of false or misleading advertising prohibited by the code.
- Describe the proscriptions against the use of unearned, nonhealth degrees and fellowships in advertising to consumers.
- Differentiate between not-for-profit and commercial referral services.
- Provide 3 standards for announcing specialization and limitation of practice.
- List 3 requirements that a general dentist must follow while announcing certification in an area of dentistry not recognized as specialty area by the ADA.
- In various disciplinary situations, relate facts with accusations and anticipate possible board action.