Healthcare Ethics Consultant (HCEC) Certification Commission, a functionally autonomous component of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) · Current official content outline released May 2023, as published on 2026-10-19; no separate implementation date is stated. Current linked candidate handbook identifies its update as August 2026, although its filename contains Sept2026. The workbook label matches the official credential.

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified Examination Content Outline and Item Development
• Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) Examination Candidate Handbook
• About the HEC-C Program
• Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified Program and Examination Information
• Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibilities for Healthcare Ethics Consultants
• AMA Opinion 10.7.1: Ethics Consultations
• AMA Opinion 2.1.1: Informed Consent
• AMA Opinion 2.1.2: Decisions for Adult Patients Who Lack Capacity
• AMA Opinion 7.1.2: Informed Consent in Research
• AMA Opinion 2.1.3: Withholding Information from Patients
• AMA Opinion 5.2: Advance Directives
• AMA Opinion 5.3: Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
• AMA Opinion 5.4: Orders Not to Attempt Resuscitation
• AMA Opinion 1.1.7: Physician Exercise of Conscience
• AMA Opinion 11.1.3: Allocating Limited Health Care Resources
• AMA Opinion 2.2.1: Pediatric Decision Making
• AMA Opinion 3.1.2: Patient Privacy and Outside Observers
• VA ECWeb Consultant Tutorial
• VA ECWeb Evaluator Tutorial
• Model for Improvement: Establishing Measures
• Model for Improvement: Testing Changes
• AHRQ TeamSTEPPS: Tool: Teach-Back
• AHRQ Strategy 6I: Shared Decisionmaking
• The Belmont Report
• HHS and DOJ Guidance on Nondiscrimination in Telehealth
• AMA Opinion 5.5: Medically Ineffective Interventions
• AMA Opinion 3.1.1: Privacy in Health Care
• Questions about an Advance Directive, Commentary 2
• AMA Opinion 10.7.1: Ethics Consultations
• Defining the Time-Limited Trial for Patients with Critical Illness: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report
• Characterizing the Documentation of Time-Limited Trials in Goals of Care Notes
• Eligibility for Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified Examination