Bioethics and Deontology

Learning Results

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.
• Exibir um bom carácter profissionalmente e integrar bons padrões profissionais na vida privada.
• Manage ethically reflecting human and material resources.

Program

– 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.
– Benefit/Harm from ionizing radiation. Bioethics in Radiological Protection Standards.
– 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.).

Internship(s)

NAO

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