Bioethics and Deontology

Not applied.

Expository method with appeal to the analysis and critical reflection on the contents agreed in interaction in the classroom.

-Continuous Assessment: relevant Interventions in the analysis introduced in class as a response to the problems in context from the quotidian (10% of the total of evaluation).

– Summative assessment: Moment of issuing a reasoned opinion on the covered topics.

It is intended the student’s involvement, the alert to the current themes, weighting and consolidating critical reflection on the actions arising from the decision-making process.

The student must acquire knowledge to:
• Recognize the main concepts and ethical and moral theories that fall into decision-making.
• Relate their Praxis with the legal framework and the consequent impact on job performance.
• Identify, contact and treat the patient, with dignity and respect.
The student must acquire skills for:
• Establish an empathetic relationship with the patient towards the collective good.
• Apply approaches to anti-discrimination and take into consideration the physical, psychological, social,
cultural and religious needs.
The student must acquire competences for:
• Join patent ducts on deontological codes.
• Take responsibility underlying the study and treatment of the patient.
• Obtain informed consent and clarified for any examination/treatment.
• Show a good character and professionally integrate good professional standards in private life.
• Manage ethically reflecting human and material resources.

– The subject of Ethics, structure and terms origin; The natural foundations of social conventions and Ethics.

– Norms, rules and laws. Ethics as need for guidance of conduct; Tolerance and Cultural Diversity.

– The Neurosciences. Consciousness. The objection of Conscience in professional performance.

– Ethics and Society; Professional Attitude and Deontological Ethics.

– The rights and duties of the patient; the responsibility of technicians.

– Informed and clarified consent; Ethical guidelines in scientific research.

– The application of new technologies to human life

– Euthanasia. Therapeutic Obstinacy. Refusal to provide in corpses.

– The desacralization of the body. The ethics committees. Laboratory Experimentation.

– Issue of opinion in relation to the diagnosis. The obligation of professional secrecy. The right to the diagnostic image.

– The invasion of privacy. Bioethics and Teleradiology (responsibility, security, consent, etc.). 

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