Center for Personalized Education for Physicians (CPEP)

Poster Authors
Elizabeth Grace, MD; Mark Staz, MA

Summary
While violations of professional ethics are not new to the health- care environment, the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic created a new array of opportunities for unethical and problematic decision- making. Many of the well-publicized examples of such lapses fall into the category of “misinformation”; however, COVID-19 related ethical failures manifest in a number of different ways. Based on referrals to PROBE, CPEP’s professional ethics and boundaries program, ethical breaches related to COVID-19 are heterogeneous and encompass elements of different types of misconduct such as misrepresentation (including “misinformation”), professional accountability (including compliance with public health mandates) and others. This poster will describe de-identified cases of physician misconduct connected to the COVID-19 pandemic, to demonstrate the breadth of potential related misconduct. As these breaches fall squarely within traditional categories of professional misconduct, it is imperative that regulators retain the ability to identify and sanction unethical conduct by their licensees related to COVID-19.

Contact
Bill O’Neill
Director, Outreach and Communications
Center for Personalized Education for Physicians (CPEP)
Email: boneill@cpepdoc.org
Phone: 919.238.6436, extension 299
Cell Phone: 919.297.8718

Additional Information
Visit the CPEP website to learn more.

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