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44 - MDC - Medical Sciences and Clinical Research
MDC 301 - Bioethics
| Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDC 301 | 22 April 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| MDC 301 | 20 May 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| MDC 301 | 10 June 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| MDC 301 | 15 July 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| MDC 301 | 12 August 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| MDC 301 | 09 September 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| MDC 301 | 07 October 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| MDC 301 | 04 November 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| MDC 301 | 30 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
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Course Description
Bioethics studies the reasonableness of human choices and actions that typically occur in medical practice, such as end-of-life decision-making, but our consideration will extend to other areas where human life and health are involved, such as artificial reproduction, research ethics, cloning, and stem cell research.
This course begins with a brief overview of ethics, and them moves to develop and consider the moral values and principles relevant to medical practice and bioethics.
Course Objectives
- Formulating the ethical principles relevant to medical practice
- Presenting the basic concepts, principles, and elements of ethics
- Distinguishing between theoretical ethics and applied ethics
- Understanding the general features (and limitations) of current bioethical discussion
- Evaluating common beliefs about ethics
- Conceptualizing the nature of a medical relationship, and understand moral principles
- Identifying the moral questions that medical practice and the health issues raise
- Identifying the key values of medical decision-making
Who Should Attend?
- Doctors, nurses, health care workers,
- Philosophers, social scientists,
- Educators intending to broaden their understanding of the ethical issues in biomedicine and other health-related issues.
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Philosophy and medicine: Health and disease as philosophical concepts
- Mind-body problem & consciousness
- Value dimension of human behavior
- Fundamentals of ethics
- Historical overview and main theories of ethics
- Introduction to medical ethics
- Classical and modern medical ethics
- The Hippocratic Oath
Day 2
- Main principles of Bioethics
- Medical professional—patient relationship
- Ethical issues of the beginning of life
- Abortion
- Biomedical research ethics
- Ethics committees
- Ethics and values in pharmacy
Day 3
- Justice in the allocation of health resources
- Veracity: Dealing honestly with patients
- Autonomy and external constraints on autonomy
- Confidentiality and the ethics of promises
- Privacy and data protection
- Different conceptions of health and disease
- Competition in medicine
Day 4
- Different forms of physician—patient communication
- Ethics of clinical drug research
- Problems of narcomania
- Ethics in reproductive medicine
- End-of-life (care) problems
- Organ transplant
Day 5
- Ethical issues related to sensitive groups
- Ethical issues related to the eHealth databases
- Autonomy and medical informed consent
- Limited resources in health care organisation and availability of drugs
