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Deliberative Practice Network (DPN) (https://deliberativepractice. com) activities were scaffolded through a pharmacy programme to facilitate navigation through ethical dilemmas using a values-based framework, increase self-awareness of how values and evidence are inter-related in health professional decisions and improve student articulation of their own ethical decisions. The DPN has been used globally to make values-based elements of problem solving explicit to health students in a safe and collaborative learning environment. Students respond individually to online dilemmas and then explore group results to develop ethical reasoning, more confident decision making, articulation of potential outcomes and greater appreciation of the complex diversity of values inherent in practice. Students were introduced to the DPN in a facilitated first-year workshop to promote confidence in values-based ethical reasoning and assessed via written reflection and a verbal case. The DPN was reintroduced two trimesters later, through student-driven assessment following experiential placements in community and hospital pharmacy, in aged care facilities and in both urban and rural settings. Student groups developed a scenario of an ethical dilemma for the platform, based on placement experiences. They then responded individually to all student-developed scenarios online. Assessment included a group presentation to their peers and academics, involving analysis and interpretation of their dilemma, and their insights into diversity in student responses.