Remediation Courses for Health Professionals in the UAE

These courses are for any health professional licensed in the UAE who needs to answer a concern about their practice and show what they have learned. Typical starting points:

• a complaint passed to you by the DHA, with the Medical Practices Committee considering a penalty or measure;
• a patient's Investigation Request for Medical Error to the DOH in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain or Al Dhafra;
• an administrative or medical complaint at MOHAP about a private facility in the Northern Emirates or a federal facility;
• a referral to the SHA's accountability or medical practice committees in Sharjah;
• a Medical Liability Committee report, or a grievance before the Supreme Committee of Medical Liability;
• an internal review, a sentinel event investigation or a pattern of complaints at your facility;
• a warning, required training, supervised practice or reassessment already ordered, or a return after suspension.

The courses are written for physicians, dentists, nurses, midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals, in government and private settings. You study privately, and nobody is told that you enrolled.

How much learning you need depends on how narrow the concern is and how far the case has gone. More is not automatically better, because a committee reads a file for relevance.

A simple test helps. List each point in the notice and write beside it the course that answers it. If one course covers every line, stop there. If gaps remain, add one course per gap, and a process course if this is your first UAE case. Anything beyond that tends to dilute the file. For reference, the core six come to AED 1,624 before the cart takes AED 180 off.

Each profession works under its own federal law, with its own penalty scale and challenge deadline. The profession pages set out those rules and suggest a course set for each type of concern.

• Doctors: Federal Law No. 5 of 2019 and its Executive Regulations, plus the emirate rules of your licensing authority.
• Nurses and midwives: Federal Law No. 6 of 2023 and Cabinet Resolution No. 176 of 2025, including the duties on scope, records and confidentiality.
• Dentists: the same federal law as physicians, with consent, treatment planning, fees and advertising among the common themes.
• Pharmacists: Federal Decree-Law No. 38 of 2024, the narcotics law and, in Dubai, Executive Council Resolution No. 49 of 2024.
• Allied health professionals: Federal Law No. 6 of 2023, where scope of practice and delegation questions come up often.

Because liability is governed by federal law, the committee process and its 30-day grievance apply in every emirate. The disciplinary side is where the authorities part ways.

• DHA remediation courses, Dubai: the Medical Practices Committee, interim suspension for a maximum of three months plus one extension, and 30 days to lodge a grievance with the Director General.
• DOH remediation courses, Abu Dhabi: penalties under Abu Dhabi Law No. 10 of 2018 alongside the federal profession laws, and an online appeal against a medical-error report.
• MOHAP remediation courses: administrative and medical complaints handled separately, with federal penalty scales and a 15-day grievance against a penalty.
• SHA remediation courses, Sharjah: committees for accountability, medical practice and grievances under the 2025 Executive Council decision.

If you are licensed in Dubai Healthcare City, licensing is moving to the DHA under Dubai Law No. 16 of 2024; read the DHA page and confirm in writing which body holds your file.

Learning comes into a case by one of two doors. The first is an order: in Dubai the Medical Practices Committee may require named training by a deadline, up to twelve months of supervised work and a fresh assessment, and the federal rules for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals let an authority attach training, reassessment, a restricted scope or supervision when a revoked licence is granted again. The second is your own choice, made to understand the standard and to demonstrate change.

The two are handled differently. Ordered training is defined by the decision, so follow its wording exactly and ask the authority whether a particular course meets it. Self-chosen learning is your own evidence, and it is only as persuasive as its match to the concern. No authority publishes a list of outside courses for these cases.

Your licensing authority decides how any learning counts towards your CPD or a requirement it has set.

Whether you are replying to an investigation, applying to return or finishing supervised practice, a file built from the same parts is easy for a committee to follow:

1. A short statement of the concern in plain words, matched to the duty or rule it engages.
2. Certificates for each course, showing the title, CPD hours, date and pass.
3. Reflective accounts that link what you learned to the specific events, with patients de-identified.
4. Proof that practice has changed: a new or updated form, a self-audit, a checklist now in use, all dated.
5. Views from others: a supervisor's report, peer feedback or a follow-up audit.
6. A dated plan saying what you will keep doing and who will check it.

While a liability case is live, be careful how you word anything that could read as an admission: the committee's findings can be relied on in a compensation claim and, where error is gross, in a prosecution. Let your insurer or lawyer check every statement before it leaves you. Look after yourself too: a case can run for months, so use your facility's staff support and keep your adviser informed rather than carrying it alone.

When an authority orders supervised practice, the decision sets its terms and the supervisor is another licensed professional. A period of supervision is easier to review when it leaves a clear trail.

• Agree goals at the start, each tied to the concern that led to supervision.
• Keep a dated log of cases, decisions discussed and feedback, countersigned where your supervisor agrees.
• Ask for written feedback at the midpoint and the end.
• Find out early what any reassessment involves and who will carry it out.

Facilities also ask staff to complete training after an internal review, before anything reaches the authority. Give such a request the same weight as a formal decision, and get it in writing: which courses, what deadline, and how the facility will confirm you have finished.

The authority is seldom the only party with questions. Your facility and the medical liability insurer each have their own stake in the case, and their requests often arrive first.

Your facility

• An account for its own review. A facility may hold an internal investigation or a root cause analysis. Write your part from the record and keep it in line with what you later send the authority.
• Training after an internal review. If you are asked to complete learning, get the topic, the deadline and the way completion will be confirmed in writing.
• Duties during the review. Some facilities adjust what you do while a matter is looked at. Ask what applies and for how long.
• Licence paperwork. In Dubai your employer activates your licence through Sheryan, and in Sharjah the facility files renewals, so it will see anything that changes your status.

The insurer

• Early notice. Cover is compulsory and paid for by the facility owner, and the insurer takes your place in a compensation claim, so its notification rules matter from day one.
• Sight of your statements. Expect to share drafts before they reach a committee, since anything you write may be read again in a claim.
• A clean chronology. A timeline drawn from the original file helps whoever advises you.

Neither needs a pile of unrelated certificates. A focused course set and a reflective account your adviser has checked are far easier for both to work with. We never contact your employer or insurer; what you share is your decision.

What you get from a course is assessed learning and a written reflection you can refer to. The facts of the case stay the same, and no course can promise a closed file, a retained licence or a lighter sanction.

Every course is online and self-paced on any device, with 12 months' access. Lessons include knowledge checks, UAE case studies and reflection prompts. The final assessment has 20 scenario-based questions and you pass with 16 correct (80%). On passing, you download a certificate of completion with the course title, CPD hours and date, plus your structured reflective account. Prices are AED 239 for 2 hours, AED 289 for 3 hours and AED 329 for the 4-hour core course, with cart discounts from three courses upwards.

Open your profession page for a tailored set, read the complaints and licensing guide if the process is new to you, or browse the full catalogue.