Course details
General
Faculty | Health Sciences | ||
Department | Medicine | ||
Education level | Postgraduate / Master of Science | ||
Course code | C5 | Semester | 1 |
Course title | Introduction to Bioethics | ||
Independent teaching activities | Hours per week | ECTS | |
Lectures | 1 | ||
Practice | 3 | ||
Total | 4 | 2 | |
Coursetype | General setting course, skills development | ||
Prerequisite courses | None | ||
Teaching and assessment language | English |
Learning outcomes
Objective
- Providing training and expertise for the dimensions of the individual problem associated with the practice of medicine and biomedical research and biotechnology applications, with the aim of producing academic work in these areas.
- The training of doctors, biologists and scientists generally related to the subject matter skills and experience to be able to offer high-quality professional, research and general scientific work
- The development of critical and research skills needed for doctoral studies.
Knowledge & Skills
The participants and the participants will be able and capable to know:
- The methodological and epistemological reflections of contemporary vision of Bioethics
- The need for inter-disciplinarity that characterizes Bioethics (humanities, biology, health sciences, law, social sciences)
- The philosophical foundations of Bioethics, and the sociological and juridical dimensions
- The moral argument for troubleshooting in the field of clinical medicine
- Regulatory issues in health sciences
- Issues Bioethics and Law
Course contents
- Code of Medical Ethics
- Code of Dental Ethics
- Medical, ethical and legal issues of end of life
- Ethics of Reproduction
- Ethics posts
Teaching and learning methods – evaluation
Teaching methods | Face to face Distance learning |
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Use of information and communication technologies (ICT) |
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Module structure | Work Hours per Semester | Activity |
Lectures | 30 | |
Exercises (Quiz) | 5 | |
Exercises (Wikis) | 5 | |
Exercises (Online discussion fora) | 10 | |
Exercises (Study relevant papers) | 20 | |
Essay background work | 40 | |
Essay writing | 15 | |
Overall work for the course | 125 | |
Assessment Methods |
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Recommended Bibliography
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- Bayefsky MJ, Saylor KW, Berkman BE. Parental Consent for the Use of Residual Newborn Screening Bloodspots: Respecting Individual Liberty vs Ensuring Public Health. JAMA. 2015 Jun 8. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.6175. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26053685.
- Toraldo DM, Vergari U, Toraldo M. Medical malpractice, defensive medicine and role of the “media” in Italy. MultidiscipRespir Med. 2015 Mar 26;10(1):12. doi: 10.1186/s40248-015-0006-3. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26052439.
- Kim SY. ‘Human subjects research’ as stigmatized activity: Implications for oversight reform: (Commentary on Jonathan Baron’s “Some fallacies of human-subjects protection, and some solutions”). Cortex. 2015 May 8. pii: S0010-9452(15)00144-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.04.020. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed PMID: 26051212.
- Emond MJ, Louie T, Emerson J, Chong JX, Mathias RA, Knowles MR, Rieder MJ, Tabor HK, Nickerson DA, Barnes KC; NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project, Go L, Gibson RL, Bamshad MJ. Exome Sequencing of Phenotypic Extremes Identifies CAV2 and TMC6 as Interacting Modifiers of Chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in Cystic Fibrosis. PLoS Genet. 2015 Jun 5;11(6):e1005273. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005273. eCollection 2015 Jun. PubMed PMID: 26047157.
- Clayton EW, Brothers KB. State-offered ethnically targeted reproductive genetic testing. Genet Med. 2015 Jun 4. doi: 10.1038/gim.2015.74. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26043291.
- Mavroidopoulou V, Xera E, Mollaki V. Awareness, attitudes and perspectives of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in Greece: a survey of potential consumers. J Hum Genet. 2015 Jun 4. doi: 10.1038/jhg.2015.58. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26040209.
- Prstačić M. Some reflections on human needs, peace, transculturality and Igbo proverbs in the light of Emmanuel Edeh’s African philosophy. CollAntropol. 2015 Mar;39(1):275-80. PubMed PMID: 26040105.
- Goldim JR. Genetics and ethics: a possible and necessary dialogue. J Community Genet. 2015 Jun 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26038294.
- Mwinga A, Moodley K. Engaging with Community Advisory Boards (CABs) in Lusaka Zambia: perspectives from the research team and CAB members. BMC Med Ethics. 2015 Jun 3;16:39. doi: 10.1186/s12910-015-0031-y. PubMed PMID: 26037507; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4453219.