AdvaMed Code of Ethics Online Training Course
Ensure that members of your organization are trained with the latest guidance on ethical interactions and relationships with health care professionals by taking the AdvaMed Code of Ethics online training course by HealthStream.
AdvaMed Code of Ethics Online Training Course
The AdvaMed Code of Ethics provides medical technology companies with guidance on ethical interactions and relationships with health care professionals, based on the cornerstone values of innovation, education, integrity, respect, responsibility, and transparency. A company that adopts the Code is strongly encouraged to submit to AdvaMed a biennial certification stating that the company has adopted the Code and has implemented an effective compliance program.
Compliance Made Easy
Ensure that members of your organization are trained with the latest guidance on ethical interactions and relationships with Health Care Professionals (HCPs) by taking the AdvaMed Code of Ethics online training course powered by HealthStream.
This course is the only AdvaMed-approved Code of Ethics training available. Purchase at the enterprise level to efficiently deliver Code of Ethics training to your organization’s representatives. Give your team the confidence, credentials and skills to handle any situation with HCPs.
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“Integrity, and common standards, are essential for sustainable business success. The revised AdvaMed Code of Ethics provides practical guidance for the medtech industry in their interactions with health care professionals.”
––Kevin Lobo, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Stryker Corporation
Learning Objectives
The hands-on course includes four modules and a post-test that takes the learner on a journey filled with ethical quandaries and questions. Through simulated day-to-day interactions with Health Care Professionals, the learner encounters opportunities to determine the best possible outcome based on the Code. At the conclusion, participants should be able to:
- Explain the role of compliance in the medtech industry
- Understand your role in helping Health Care Professionals (HCPs) deliver high quality health care
- Identify the Cornerstone Values of the AdvaMed Code of Ethics
- Identify the elements of an Effective Compliance Program
- Define an unlawful inducement
- Understand situations in which engagement of HCPs is necessary
- Assess when a legitimate need arises
- Evaluate consulting arrangements, including the selection of HCPs and compensation considerations
- Identify considerations related to communications about the safe and effective use of medical technology
- Understand guidelines for company representatives providing technical support in the clinical setting
- Understand and apply principles for conducting appropriate training and education
- Analyze applications of legitimate need
- Identify considerations related to grants, donations, and commercial sponsorships
- Understand the prohibitions and ethical practices on providing HCPs with travel and lodging, meals and refreshments, and entertainment and recreation
- Identify educational items, promotional items, and gifts
- Adhere to the Code’s guidelines on evaluation, demonstration and consignment products
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