EPIC EM
Ethics for Emergency Medicine
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Short course
Course type
7 hrs
Study time
Online
Mode of learning
7 CPD points
7 Ethics
(70% average required)
(70% average required)
Course overview
How do ethical principles shape the decisions made in high-pressure emergency medical settings?
This course explores the fundamental ethical principles in prehospital and emergency care, equipping healthcare providers with the knowledge and decision-making skills to navigate complex ethical dilemmas.
Through real-world case studies, interactive discussions, and scenario-based quizzes, learners will examine topics such as informed consent, duty to act, end-of-life care, negligence, and social media ethics in EMS.
Whether you’re a paramedic, nurse, doctor, or EMS professional, this course provides practical ethical frameworks to enhance patient care and professional decision-making.
Who is this course for?
Registered with the HPCSA and looking for emergency medical ethics points
Required qualification
EMS, Doctors or Nurses
Course level
This course caters for all levels
Develop your professional skills
Why choose this course?
In emergency and critical care medicine, ethical decisions are rarely theoretical. They happen in real time — under pressure, with incomplete information, competing priorities, and real consequences for patients, families, and teams.
This course is designed to move ethics from abstract concepts to practical, bedside decision-making.
✔ Comprehensive & Clinically Relevant
We go beyond definitions. This course unpacks the core ethical principles — autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, consent, confidentiality, and structured ethical reasoning — and applies them to real clinical dilemmas you are likely to face in emergency, prehospital, ICU, and retrieval environments.
✔ Built for Real-World Practice
Through reflective analysis and structured frameworks, you will learn how to think clearly in complex situations, manage moral uncertainty, and make defensible, patient-centred decisions — even when under pressure.
✔ Focused on Growth, Not Judgment
This is not about criticizing past decisions. It is about developing ethical maturity. The assignment is designed to help you reflect honestly, strengthen your reasoning, and build a framework you can rely on in future high-stakes situations.
✔ Flexible, Self-Paced Learning
Designed for busy clinicians, this course allows you to engage deeply with the material in your own time while still meeting structured learning outcomes.
✔ Strengthen Patient & Team Safety
Ethical clarity improves not only patient care, but team culture, psychological safety, and professional integrity. When you can articulate why you made a decision — and how it aligns with ethical principles — you practice with greater confidence and accountability.
About EPIC EM
At EPIC EM, we don’t adhere to the traditional vision and mission statement model. Instead, we are guided by our five core pillars that drive everything we do:
1. Putting the Patient First
2. Inspiring Sign of Hope
3. Courage & Strength
4. Help, Resilience & Renewal
5. Support & Optimism
Rather than a static mission statement, we live by our “Purpose in Action”, a dynamic approach to providing exceptional education in emergency medicine with unwavering passion and commitment.
Through education and collaboration, we strive to uplift patients, practitioners, and communities, creating meaningful and lasting change.
Through education and collaboration, we strive to uplift patients, practitioners, and communities, creating meaningful and lasting change.
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Course developers & authors
Tash Lachenicht
Natasha “Tash” Lachenicht is a paramedic, educator, and healthcare leader based in South Africa. She serves as Managing Director of EPIC EM.
Kaleb Lachenicht
Kaleb Lachenicht is an operational and strategic leader in aeromedical and critical care systems, serving in senior leadership within ROCKET HEMS and EPIC EM in South Africa.
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