Argues Better
Every clinician meets moments where the right answer isn’t obvious — consent, capacity, competing duties. This course sharpens how you reason through them, so you decide with clarity and defend your reasoning with confidence.
Reason well when it matters most
Good clinical ethics isn’t about memorising rules — it’s a skill: seeing the real question, weighing principles that pull in different directions, and explaining your decision so colleagues, patients and committees can follow it. Most of us were never taught that skill explicitly.
Over five focused, one-hour lessons, UCT’s faculty take you through a practical method for thinking clearly under pressure — from consent and capacity to confidentiality and competing duties. It’s discussion-led and built around the everyday dilemmas of practice, not abstract theory. You’ll leave able to structure an argument, spot a weak one, and stand behind your call.
By the end of this course
- ✓Identify the real ethical question inside a messy clinical situation.
- ✓Structure a clear argument and recognise a weak or fallacious one.
- ✓Weigh competing principles when they genuinely conflict.
- ✓Handle consent and capacity conversations with confidence.
- ✓Navigate confidentiality, disclosure and competing duties.
- ✓Make a defensible decision under pressure — and explain it.
Self-paced lessons, live expert sessions
Course lessons
- What makes an argument good?The foundations of clear ethical reasoning.
- The four principles — and when they collideAutonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice.
- Consent, capacity & the difficult conversationAssessing capacity and handling refusal.
- Confidentiality, disclosure & competing dutiesWhen duties to patient, family and public pull apart.
- Making — and defending — the callReaching a decision you can stand behind.
🎥 Live expert sessions
Alongside the recorded lessons, you’ll join live Zoom sessions with the UCT ethicist who leads the course — to debate real cases, test your reasoning, and hear how colleagues think.
- Live attendance encouraged — bring your own dilemmas
- Every session recorded, so you never miss out
- 3 months’ access to all lessons and recordings
- Certificate of completion on finishing the course
Presenter name to be confirmed
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Ready to join?
Enrolment is by application so we can verify every learner and protect the quality of your cohort. It takes about five minutes.
- 1Complete the short application below.
- 2We verify your professional registration (HPCSA) — within 24 hours.
- 3On approval, we email you a secure PayFast payment link.
- 4Pay, and your 3-month access begins immediately.