CPD-Accredited Short Courses

Grow your ethics toolkit. Earn CPD points.

Two practical, joyful short courses — built for South African healthcare providers navigating real ethical complexity in real clinical life. No dry theory. No cold lectures. Just honest, useful learning you can take straight into practice.

Both courses carry full CPD ethics accreditation — recognised by South African healthcare professional bodies.

Pick your starting point

Whether you want to reason more confidently through clinical ethical dilemmas, or find sustainable ways to care without burning out — there's a course here for you. Both are online, flexible, and grounded in the South African healthcare context you actually work in.

Short Course · CPD Accredited

Argue Better

Ethical Reasoning for Healthcare Providers

You face ethical complexity every single day — conflicting obligations, impossible choices, contested values. This course gives you real tools to think through those situations clearly, argue your position with confidence, and engage constructively when you and your colleagues don't agree. No philosophy degree required. Just honest, practical reasoning skills you can use the next time things get hard.

✓ CPD Ethics Points Online & Flexible South African Context All Healthcare Professions
  • A structured approach to ethical reasoning that actually works at the bedside
  • Confidence to hold and articulate your ethical position under pressure
  • Tools for productive ethical disagreement — with colleagues, patients, families
  • Real South African clinical case studies as your learning material
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Short Course · CPD Accredited

Buffer Burnout With Compassion

Sustainable care in a demanding system

Healthcare is hard. The system is under-resourced. You carry more than you should. Burnout isn't a character flaw — it's what happens when compassion meets an impossible workload without enough support. This course helps you build sustainable habits of care: for your patients, yes, but also for yourself. Compassion as a practice, not just a personality trait. Grounded in the South African healthcare reality you live in.

✓ CPD Ethics Points Online & Flexible Wellbeing & Ethics Nurses, Doctors, AHPs
  • Practical tools to protect your emotional and ethical wellbeing in practice
  • A deeper understanding of compassion fatigue and moral distress — and what to do about them
  • Strategies for sustainable compassion — care that doesn't cost you everything
  • Honest conversation about the ethics of caring for yourself as a healthcare provider
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What does CPD accreditation mean for you?

Both courses carry full CPD ethics accreditation — the kind your professional body recognises. That means your learning counts toward your annual CPD requirements, and you get a certificate to prove it. Good ethics is also good professional practice, and now it comes with the paperwork to match.

Formally recognised

Both short courses are CPD ethics accredited, meaning they count toward your continuing professional development requirements with South African healthcare regulatory bodies.

A certificate you can use

On completion, you receive a certificate from UCT EthicsLab — a credible, UCT-affiliated record of your ethics learning that you can submit for CPD verification.

Grounded in your context

Rooted in the South African healthcare system, with case studies and examples drawn from real clinical contexts — not imported wholesale from elsewhere. Ethics that speaks to where you actually work.

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We'd love to hear from you.

Enrolment enquiries, group bookings, institutional licensing — whatever you're wondering, just ask. No hard sell, no auto-responders. A real person from the EthicsLab will get back to you.

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