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Medical Ethics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:55
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | HZK_041 | LQF level: | All Levels | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Philosophy | Target Audience: | Dentistry | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Vija Sīle | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 7 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 14 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 7 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 14 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Corresponding to secondary education. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide an overview of the basic problems of normative ethics and medical ethics, as well as to create an understanding of the ethical principles on which practical activities in modern medicine are based. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction. Normative ethical theories | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Autonomy and informed consent | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Privacy and confidentiality | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Disclosure of Information | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Doctor- patient relationship | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Just Distribution of Resources | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Ethics in Research | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Normative approaches in ethics | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Principlism in Medical Ethics | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Principle of Autonomy | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Non-maleficence and beneficence. Confidentiality and privacy | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Doctor- patient relationship | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Justice in Distribution of Resources | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Ethics in Clinical Research | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To become acquainted with the literature To get ready for active participation in seminar discussions To prepare for final examination. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in seminar discussions and written test. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Knowledge about concepts used in ethics and medical ethics, such as personal autonomy, justice, confidentiality, collegiality, etc. Identification and interpretation of the most important problems and principles of medical ethics (human rights and medicine, personal autonomy, informed consent and ethical problems; non-maleficence and beneficence; principles of confidentiality and privacy and ethical concerns; the principle of justice). | ||||||||
| Skills: | Organizing views on the medical ethics; analysing ethical issues and debating, demonstrating the justifications applied by different theoretical approaches; finding solutions for medical ethics cases, evaluating their shortcomings and strengths; criticizing and defending arguments and principles used in medical ethics debates. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Cognitive and communicative competence. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Biomedicīnas ētika. Teorija un prakse. – Rīga, 2006. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Klīve V.V. Rīcības ceļos. – Rīga, 1998. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | Sīle V. Medicīnas ētikas pamatprincipi. – Rīga, 1999. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Beauchamp T. L., Childress, J. F. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2013. | ||||||||
| 2 | Rubenis A. Ētika XX gadsimtā. Praktiskā ētika. – Rīga, 1996. | ||||||||
| 3 | Rubenis A. Ētika XX gadsimtā. Teorētiskā ētika. – Rīga, 1997. | ||||||||
| 4 | Steinbock, B. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics. Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://bioethics.first.lv/ | ||||||||
| 2 | The Ethics Web: Ethics on the Net - http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/ethics/ | ||||||||
