LF:BOET031p Health Care Ethics - Course Information
BOET031p Health Care Ethics
Faculty of Medicineautumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. David Černý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Lenka Herníková
Supplier department: Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Optics and Optometry (programme LF, B-OPOP)
- Optics and Optometry (programme LF, B-SZ)
- Ortoptics (programme LF, B-ORTO)
- Ortoptics (programme LF, B-SZ)
- Course objectives
- The course gives an introduction to health care ethics, focusing on ethical problems of health care professions. The aim of the course is: to introduce to health care ethics; to inform about ethical dilemmas in health care professions; to learn how to solve ethical problems in health care, including argumentation; to develop the ability to perceive ethical questions within health care - to learn how to prevent problems observing ethical professional standards.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the subject, the student will be able: - to identify ethical aspects of health care - to analyze ethical dilemmas in health care - to apply the ethical normative tools
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to health care ethics. 2. Models of relationships within health care (and their development). 3. Informed consent. 4. Patient rights. 5. Medical information treatment. 6. Personal data protection in health care. 7. Ethics in PND and PGD. 8. Medical futility and palliative care. 9. Euthanasia, assisted suicide. 10. Ethics in biomedical research. 11. Human subject research. 12. Animal research. 13. Human biological material for research. 14. Ethics and law (Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, Declaration on Human Rights and Bioethics).
- Teaching methods
- lecture
- Assessment methods
- essay
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: podzimní semestr.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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