About Healthcare Practise: independent education for UAE healthcare professionals

The UAE edition of Healthcare Practise publishes 31 self-paced courses for physicians, dentists, nurses and midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals licensed by the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP), the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DOH), the Sharjah Health Authority (SHA) or Dubai Healthcare City (DHCR). Some learners use the courses to keep their knowledge of the codes current. Others use them after a complaint, an investigation or a request for training, when they need to understand the standard in question and reflect on their own practice.

The UAE edition is written for the UAE. It is not material from another country with the names changed: the laws, terms, cases and authority rules are UAE ones throughout.

• Not a regulator or part of one. We are not affiliated with MOHAP, the DHA, the DOH, SHA, DHCR or Emirates Health Services, and we do not use their logos.
• Not an accredited CME provider. No UAE authority has accredited our courses, and our courses carry no CME or CPD points or credits. Certificates state learning hours, nothing more.
• Not a route around a committee. No UAE authority publishes a list of approved remediation courses. Training ordered in a case, such as the training courses, supervision and reassessment that Dubai's Executive Council Resolution No. 49 of 2024 allows, is decided by that authority.
• Not legal advice. If a complaint or investigation is open, speak to your medical liability insurer, a lawyer or your employer.

We also do not publish testimonials, ratings or success stories. Judge a course by its syllabus, the sources it cites and the exact certificate wording shown on our certificates page.

Every course starts from primary sources, opened and read, not from summaries on consultancy or news websites:

• Federal law from the official UAE legislation portal, including Federal Law No. 5 of 2019 on the practice of human medicine, Federal Law No. 6 of 2023 for nurses, midwives and allied professions, Federal Decree-Law No. 4 of 2016 on Medical Liability with Cabinet Resolution No. 40 of 2019, and the Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021).
• Authority documents such as the DHA Standards for Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (in force since 3 September 2025), the DHA Fitness to Practice Policy, the DOH Standard for Continuing Professional Development (2024), the DOH Policy on Integrity and Benefit Disclosure and the DHCC Healthcare Professionals Regulation No. 2 of 2013.
• National standards shared by the authorities, including the third version of the Unified Healthcare Professional Qualification Requirements and the Patient's Rights and Responsibilities Charter (Ministerial Resolution No. 14 of 2021).

Each fact in a lesson is tied to its instrument, year and, where available, article. If we could not open an official text, we do not state its content as fact. For example, we found no official page giving Sharjah's CPD hours for licence renewal, so no course gives a figure for them.

1. Official terms. We use each authority's own words, such as medical error, Medical Liability Committee, grievance, precautionary suspension and Medical Practices Committee, and quote official titles exactly as published.
2. Conflicts shown, not hidden. Where official sources disagree, we say so. The current qualification requirements treat a break in practice of more than three years as a gap, while some DHA and DOH pages still refer to two years; our courses explain both and tell you to confirm with your licensing authority.
3. Realistic, fictional cases. Case studies are composites set in UAE clinics, hospitals and pharmacies; they do not describe real patients or professionals.
4. Assessments that test learning. Answer options are written to be equally plausible, so passing depends on having studied the course.
5. Dated checks. Every guide shows the date its facts were last checked, and we review a course when a law or standard it cites changes.

If you think a lesson or page is wrong or out of date, tell us through the contact page and include the official source if you have it. We check it against the source and correct the content where needed.

We do not tell employers or licensing authorities who has enrolled or how they scored. Learner data is handled under our privacy policy, in line with the UAE Personal Data Protection Law.