Professionalism Course for UAE Healthcare Professionals

What you will learn

• Identify the federal laws that set professional duties for all practitioners and for each profession group, and the conduct standards of your own licensing authority.
• Apply the 12 standards of the DHA Standards for Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to everyday situations in any profession.
• Make accurate declarations in licensing, renewal and good standing processes and practise only where your licence and privileges run.
• Compare renewal, CPD and gap-in-practice requirements across MOHAP, DHA, DOH and DHCR for your profession, and keep an honest, audit-ready CPD record.
• Demonstrate respectful presence at the point of care, including introductions, identification, privacy, opposite-gender examination rules and interpreter use.
• Recognise and correct discrimination and incivility towards patients and colleagues, and raise or receive safety concerns professionally.
• Work within scope, delegate safely, hand over explicitly and respond to errors with candour, incident reporting and an unaltered record.
• Apply DHA, DOH and federal rules to social media, promotion, clinical systems, messaging and telehealth.
• Declare and manage conflicts of interest and recognise when health, fatigue or conduct outside work affects fitness to practise.
• Explain how conduct concerns, penalties and grievances work for your profession, and demonstrate insight through a written reflection and a personal professionalism plan.

Syllabus

10 sections, about 2 learning hours, 20-question final assessment

1. 1Professionalism across the UAE health workforce2 lessons

   • Professionalism across the whole UAE health workforce
   • The codes and standards that set the expectations
2. 2Licensing integrity and keeping your standing2 lessons

   • Licensing integrity: honesty from application to the first shift
   • Keeping your standing: renewal, CPD, good standing and gaps in practice
3. 3Conduct and respect in a multicultural workplace3 lessons

   • Presence, identity and respect at the point of care
   • Respect and non-discrimination towards patients and colleagues
   • Civility, hierarchy and speaking up in mixed teams
4. 4Accountability in everyday practice2 lessons

   • Scope, delegation and reliability
   • Owning mistakes: candour, reporting and cooperation
5. 5Digital professionalism2 lessons

   • Your professional self online
   • Clinical systems, messaging and telehealth
6. 6Integrity under pressure: commerce, health and life outside work2 lessons

   • Commercial pressure, conflicts of interest and gifts
   • Your health, fatigue and conduct outside work
7. 7When professionalism is questioned: process, insight and growth2 lessons

   • When your professionalism is questioned: how concerns are handled
   • Insight, remediation and a lasting professional identity
8. 8Conclusion and key points1 lesson

   • Conclusion and key points
9. 9References and further reading1 lesson

   • References and further reading
10. 10Reflection1 lesson

    • Your reflective account

Course facts

CPD value

Approximately 2 learning hours (self-directed CPD, including knowledge checks, reflection and assessment)

Audience

All licensed healthcare professionals in the UAE: nurses, midwives, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, paramedics and TCIM practitioners licensed by MOHAP, DHA, DOH, SHA or in Dubai Healthcare City, in government and private facilities

Standards covered

Federal Decree-Law No. 4 of 2016 (Medical Liability) and Cabinet Resolution No. 40 of 2019; Federal Law No. 5 of 2019 and Cabinet Resolution No. 67 of 2020; Federal Law No. 6 of 2023 and Cabinet Resolution No. 176 of 2025; Federal Decree-Law No. 38 of 2024; Cabinet Resolution No. 20 of 2017 and the PQR (3rd version, 2025); Ministerial Resolution No. 14 of 2021 (Patient's Rights and Responsibilities Charter); Ministerial Resolution No. 1448 of 2017 (referenced); Federal Law No. 2 of 2019; Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2023; Federal Decree-Law No. 55 of 2023 and Cabinet Resolutions No. 68 of 2024 and No. 42 of 2025; Dubai Executive Council Resolution No. 49 of 2024 and Dubai Law No. 16 of 2024; DHA Standards for Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (ST-66, 2025), Fitness to Practice Policy (2025), Manual for Licensing Healthcare Professionals (2025), ST-21, ST-53 and Standards for Health Information Consent and Access Control (2025); DOH Policy on Integrity and Benefit Disclosure (2022), Standard for CPD (2024), Incident Reporting and Management Standard V2 (2024), ADHICS V2 and Malaffi policy; Abu Dhabi Law No. 10 of 2018; Sharjah Executive Council Resolution No. 29 of 2025; DHCC Regulation No. 2 of 2013

Format

Self-paced, gated lessons with knowledge checks, UAE case studies and reflection

Assessment

20 scenario-based questions, 80% to pass (16 of 20)

Outcome

Certificate of completion and a written reflection for your professional development portfolio

Alignment

Mapped to, and supports reflection on, all 12 DHA Code of Ethics standards, especially Standards 6 (Integrity and Accountability), 7 (Scope of Practice and Competence), 8 (Communication), 9 (Continuous Professional Development) and 10 (Supervision and Delegation); duties under FDL 4/2016 Art. 3, CR 40/2019 Art. 2, Federal Law 5/2019 Arts 17 and 24 and Federal Law 6/2023 Art. 8; the DOH Policy on Integrity and Benefit Disclosure and CPD Standard; MOHAP licensing and renewal requirements

Price

AED 349

Who this course is for

Nurses, midwives, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, paramedics and TCIM practitioners licensed by MOHAP, DHA, DOH, SHA or in Dubai Healthcare City.

Written for professionals licensed by any UAE authority: MOHAP, DHA, DOH, SHA or DHCR. Where the rules differ, the course explains the difference.