Course: Ethics for Healthcare Professions

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Course title Ethics for Healthcare Professions
Course code FZS/AETH
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Matějková Iryna, Mgr. DiS.
  • Sládek Karel, doc. RNDr. ThLic. Ph.D., MBA
Course content
Content: Lectures Basic ethical theories and principles, ethical dilemmas and methodology in Ethics, Research Ethics, Codes of Ethics, Professional responsibility and medical errors, Rights and duties, Ethics in Genetics, End of life issues, and other selected topics, e. g. Cultural competency, Moral issues in Disaster medicine, Organ transplantation Seminars and Practice Practicing methods of analyzing clinical ethics cases, ethical dilemmas and application of ethical principles, understanding ethical principles ? issues related to Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence and Non-maleficence, Research Ethics, Ethical dilemmas in medicine and clinical ethics cases

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
Aims and Competencies: The aim of the course is to acquire basic knowledge about medical ethics and provide tools to develop the skills for ethical professional conduct. The case-based seminars use certain situations to help to recognize the existence of ethical dilemmas, develop a process for working through ethical choices and demonstrate how to use universally applicable standards. Assessment Methods: Compulsory attendance at all the sessions is required. The exam is based on submitting an essay and demonstration of gained knowledge in oral exam.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Beauchamp, T., Childress, J. Principles of biomedical ethics. Eighth ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 13:978-0195335705.
  • JONSEN, A. R., M. SIEGLER and W. J. WINSLADE. Clinical ethics: a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2015. ISBN 978-0071845069.


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