Healthcare professionals face competing obligations to their patients, employers, and themselves. When these competing obligations cannot be resolved, healthcare professionals have reported experiencing symptoms of moral suffering, including injury, distress, and even burnout. Moral resilience — the ‘capacity of an individual to sustain or restore their integrity in response to moral adversity’— has been proposed as a resource to address moral suffering while contributing to well-being. This course aims to build moral resilience in healthcare practitioners by equipping them with the tools of critical thinking and ethical reasoning. In the words of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu: ‘Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.’

Short course flyer, EthicsLab, clinical ethics in action.

Date and time: Every Tuesday from 2 July to 6 August 2024 (there will be no class on 15 July).
Venue: Online (Microsoft Teams).
CPD Points: UCT Certificate and 6 Ethics CPD points available. 
Course Fees: R 2,500 per person. 

For more information on the course, see our Clinical Ethics in Action page.