Code of Conduct

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Code of Conduct Ethics its role in an
educational context

• Val Challen

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• FUNCTIONS of a CODE

• Uphold Competence
• Ethical dimension
• Political Dimension
• Disciplinary

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• Health Professions Council (HPC)

• High standards
• Conduct
• Performance
• Ethics

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• Professional Body Code

• Scope of professional practice
• Relationships with service users
• Relationships with professional staff
• Personal professional standards

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• Education Training

• Student radiographers
• Others e.g. nurse referrers midwives in
  sonography etc.

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• Students

• Academic situation
• Clinical situation
• Research situation
• Professional lead

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• Non-maleficence
• Distributive justice

• Respect for individuals
• Beneficence

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• Ethical apprenticeship

• Sensitization to issues
• Ability to recognise the possibilities
• Cultivation of systematic intellectual approaches

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• The use of patients in student education
  training

• Delegated task
• Consent
• Patients right to know of inexperience
• Benefit of patients v. benefit to provider

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• Consent

• Decision making capacity
• Lack of coercion
• Adequate information
• Comprehension

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• Intimate examinations

• Student presence
• Chaperoning

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• Scope of practice

• Students overstepping responsibilities
• Practitioners
• Wanting to expand role
• Not wanting to expand role

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• Students as surrogate patients

• Consent
• Gender issues

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• Research Audit

• Requirement of a professional
• Dissemination
• Furthering evidence base

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• Personal
• Standards

• Conduct deportment
• Personal health
• Public accountability
• Personal ethics
• Record keeping

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• Education

• Ethics throughout each of the undergraduate years
• Use of Vignettes/Scenarios
• Use of students teaching ethical dilemmas to
  each other
• Ethical Audit

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• Education

• Integration within a wider approach to
  professionalism
• Awareness of Hidden curriculum
• By example