Dental Ethics: Navigating Dilemmas and Ensuring Well-Being in Daily Practice

While not every patient-provider interaction presents an ethical dilemma, each interaction – whether with a patient or a team member – carries an ethical dimension. A provider’s willingness to recognize ethical issues is the first step toward managing them.

Join CareQuest Institute, in partnership with the American Society for Dental Ethics (ASDE), for a webinar that will explore the core principles of ethical dentistry and share common case scenarios that highlight the sometimes-invisible ethical issues in patient care. Using empathy as an ethical lens for how to engage with others, our experts will share effective strategies and resources to help you practice with integrity and ethics. They’ll also discuss how to balance altruistic practice with your own self-care for long-term fulfillment.

Learning Objectives: 

• Define ethics, professionalism, and well-being.
• Discuss and explain provider and team well-being and their relationship to ethical practice.
• Explore an ethical decision-making model addressing common ethical dilemmas in clinical practice.

Moderator & Presenter

Carlos Stringer Smith, DDS, MDiv, FACD, President, American Society for Dental Ethics; Associate Dean for Ethics and Community Engagement; Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry

Presenter

Pamela Zarkowski, JD, MPH, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Detroit Mercy

This webinar will be recorded. 

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.        
ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. CareQuest Institute for Oral Health designates this activity for 1 continuing education credit.        
This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP) by CareQuest Institute for Oral Health.

All participating instructors in this program have disclosed that they do not have any financial arrangement or affiliation with persons or entity(ies) offering financial support, products, and/or services mentioned or related to the content of this program/activity.