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Professional Boundaries and Provider Sexual Misconduct
Professional boundaries are critical to safe, ethical care. This course fulfills Georgia’s Rule 360-15-.01 and equips physicians with strategies to prevent misconduct and protect patients.
Fulfilling Georgia’s Rule 360-15-.01 on physician boundaries and sexual misconduct.
About this course
Maintaining clear professional boundaries is essential to patient trust and ethical medical practice. This course explores the dynamics of physician-patient boundaries, with a specific focus on preventing sexual misconduct. Learners will examine common risk factors, review ethical and clinical guidelines for sensitive examinations, and gain practical strategies to support respectful communication and documentation. Through real-world scenarios and evidence-based insights, this course empowers physicians to uphold professional standards, navigate complex situations, and reinforce their role as trusted healthcare providers.
This course fulfills Georgia’s Rule 360-15-.01, requirement for education on professional boundaries and physician sexual misconduct.
What you will learn
At the completion of this activity, healthcare providers will be able to:
- Define key terms related to professional boundaries and physician sexual misconduct, including distinctions between boundary crossings and violations.
- Identify individual, situational, and systemic risk factors that may contribute to boundary violations in clinical practice.
- Describe best practices for conducting sensitive physical examinations, including the appropriate use of chaperones and patient consent protocols.
- Explain effective communication strategies and documentation practices that support ethical, transparent clinical interactions.
- Summarize Georgia-specific legal requirements, including Rule 360-15-.01, and describe appropriate procedures for reporting violations.
- Analyze case scenarios to evaluate professional behavior and reinforce ethical decision-making in ambiguous or high-risk situations.
Course content
Course details
Accreditations
This course has been reviewed and approved through the rigorous standards of leading accrediting organizations, ensuring your continuing education credits are formally recognized and respected across professions and states.
ACCME
Accredited for physician continuing medical education
ANCC
Accredited for nursing continuing education
Additional Information
- Automatic reporting to CE Broker for participating states
- Instant certificate generation upon course completion
- Credits accepted for license renewal
- Meets state requirements for continuing education
Course Faculty
Learn from leading experts who bring their real-world experience and evidence-based practices to this comprehensive training.
Tong Liu
Tong is a licensed board-certified family medicine physician with a background in gynecology. She spends her time as a cartoonist, certified life coach, writer and speaker. She is passionate about projects related to holistic wellness, mental health, social justice, women's reproductive health and comprehensive sex education.
Disclosure
Disclosures
Partners requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to Partners policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.
- Tong Liu, MD
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
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Combined 27+ years of direct patient care experience with diverse HIV populations in various healthcare settings.
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- Courses meet state, department, and board license requirements
- Instant Completion. Certificate sent to you directly
- Reporting on your behalf to CE Broker
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Requirements & Compliance
This course meets your continuing education requirements across multiple states and professions, ensuring you stay compliant with the latest regulations.
Requirements
Georgia Physician's Rule 360-15-.01
Georgia’s Rule 360-15-.01, requirement for education on professional boundaries and physician sexual misconduct.
This course is regularly updated to ensure compliance with current state and federal requirements.
Accreditations
ACCME
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
ANCC
American Nurses Credentialing Center
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