Choose your country edition
New Zealand United States Canada Singapore United Arab Emirates All countriesEthics and professional conduct
Probity course for UAE healthcare professionals: honest licence applications, records, sick leave certificates and financial dealings
Licensed physicians, dentists, nurses and midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals in any emirate, including those changing authority, preparing a renewal or answering a concern about honesty.
Structured learning and a written reflection to show insight after a complaint, an investigation or a licensing authority inquiry.
Focused learning on a core standard of practice, with a certificate and reflection for your portfolio.
Probity concerns often start with a shortcut that seemed harmless at the time: a sick leave certificate written for a patient nobody examined, a note tidied up after a complaint arrived, a past investigation left off a licence application, a CPD certificate claimed for a session never attended. This course shows where honesty is tested in UAE practice and how to stay on the right side of the line. It covers licensing and primary source verification, good standing and declarations, records and late entries, sick leave certificates, medical reports and fitness certificates, conflicts of interest, gifts and samples, referral commissions and unnecessary tests, research, advertising and online profiles.
It applies to physicians, dentists, nurses and midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals under the DHA, DOH, MOHAP, SHA or DHCR. It matters most at moments of change, such as a move to a new authority or a renewal, and when someone (a patient, your employer, an insurer or the authority itself) has queried something you wrote, signed, claimed or declared.
In the UAE, dishonesty can lead well beyond a warning. Federal Decree-Law No. 4 of 2016 requires every professional to work with accuracy and honesty, Federal Law No. 5 of 2019 bars referral commissions and steering patients, the DHA licensing manual warns that fraudulent CPD claims lead to disciplinary action, and in March 2026 the DOH suspended staff pending referral to the Public Prosecution after finding sick leave certificates issued without examination and manipulated medical records. The final sections explain how probity concerns are investigated and penalised, how to answer one with candour, and how insight and checkable remediation can help you show that a lapse will not be repeated.
A probity concern is judged on two things: what you did, and how honestly you account for it now. Committees and licensing authorities in the UAE look closely at whether a professional minimises, shifts blame or gives a precise and candid explanation. This course helps you place your conduct on the line between honest error, carelessness and dishonesty, understand the federal and emirate rules that applied, and set out the practical systems you have put in place so a lapse cannot recur.
The certificate shows when you completed two hours of focused learning on honesty in licensing, records, certificates and money. The reflective account matters more: it asks you to name exactly what happened, why it was wrong, why it happened and what has changed, which is the structure panels tend to look for. Pair it with verifiable steps, such as an audited record correction process, and take legal or insurer advice before responding to any formal concern.
What you will have at the end
A renewal file, a missing month and a borrowed module
Consider, for illustration, a pharmacist in Ajman preparing to move to a hospital post in Dubai. To save time, a colleague offers to share CPD module completions from an online platform they both use. The pharmacist also leaves a short period of unemployment off the application, reasoning that it was only a few weeks and has nothing to do with competence.
During primary source verification, the dates on the experience certificate do not match the CV. The new authority asks for an explanation, and the CPD provider, queried separately, confirms that two modules were logged from the same account at the same time. What began as two shortcuts is now a question about the honesty of the whole application, which is often treated more seriously than the original gap would have been.
The course addresses each step. Section 3 explains how the PQR, verification and good standing checks test what you declare, and why CPD claims and renewal declarations matter. Section 7 covers how such concerns reach the authority, the sanctions and the response deadlines. Section 8 shows how to give a candid account, show insight and build a remediation plan that a new employer can check.
Illustrative example, not a real case.
11 sections · 23 lessons · 2 hours (estimated) · 20-question final assessment
Final assessment
20scenario-based questions
Certificate of completion
A certificate of completion for your learning portfolio.
Completed12 Oct 2026The course includes a structured reflective account template: guided prompts to record what you learned, how you will apply it and how the change will show in your practice. It gives you written evidence of insight after a concern, and a ready record for your CPD portfolio.
Write it in your own words and leave out anything that could identify a patient, a colleague or a case. If you have an open complaint or case, talk to your adviser before reflecting on it in writing.
Any question about your honesty or integrity: altered or back-dated records, certificates or reports that do not reflect an assessment, inaccurate licence or renewal declarations, false CPD claims, undeclared conflicts of interest, referral commissions, misleading advertising or titles, and dishonesty in research. Concerns can come from patients, employers, insurers, audits or the authority itself.
The course treats a sick leave certificate as a clinical document that must follow a proper assessment within your licensed scope. In March 2026 the DOH acted against staff at several facilities over certificates issued without examination. Where your facility is licensed to provide telehealth, follow your authority's telehealth rules on what a remote assessment allows.
Yes, declarations must be complete and accurate. A good standing certificate no older than six months is needed for a new licence, and it reflects disciplinary history; the DHA issues a current status certificate while an investigation or appeal is open. Leaving something out of an application can create a more serious concern than the original matter.
Not if it is clearly labelled as a late entry, dated when written and made under your facility's policy. Changing or deleting existing entries is different: in Dubai, altering or deleting medical file data against DHA instructions is a listed violation. The course shows how to correct records transparently.
It can help you understand the standard in question, reflect honestly on your conduct and plan remediation you can evidence. It does not decide any outcome. Take advice from your insurer or a UAE lawyer before responding, and check with the body handling your case before relying on any course to meet a requirement it has set.
Your licensing authority decides how any learning counts towards your CPD or a requirement it has set. Never describe this or any certificate as something it is not in a renewal file.
Eight short teaching sections (about two hours of online study), a knowledge check after each, and a final 20-question scenario assessment with a pass mark of 80%, which means 16 correct answers. On passing you receive your certificate and a structured reflective account.
Every legal and regulatory point comes from primary sources: UAE federal health laws, the licensing authorities' codes, standards and policies, and official government guidance. Anything we cannot confirm is left out.
Lessons, scenarios and assessment questions are written by us for each edition separately, then checked for accuracy, teaching quality and fair assessment before publication.
When a code, standard or law changes, the affected courses are reviewed and updated. Reported errors in legal or regulatory facts are corrected first.
Honest claiming in the UAE insurance system: coding, medical necessity, pre-approvals, co-payments, pricing, kickbacks, facility pressure and putting claims errors right.
Records that hold up when someone else reads them: what to write, consent and refusal, labelled late entries, template pitfalls, reports, sick notes, retention and keeping the file intact.
Complaint routes in each emirate, the committee process, deadlines, the first 72 hours, building a chronology and writing an honest, structured response.
