Download Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Continuous Ethics

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF
MEDICINE CONTINUOUS ETHICS
EDUCATION PROGRAM
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ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES OF THE STUDENTS
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Medicine
Pharmacy
Dentistry
Nursing
Health Administration
Health Technology
Health Services
Physical Therapy & Rehabilition
Social work
Healthcare Professionals
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This course is designed for clinicians, nurses, physician
assistants, nurse practitioners, chaplains, social workers,
hospital and clinic administrators, and others involved
in patient care, plus ethics educators and other
individuals interested in clinical ethics issues.
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Number Of Students: 40-60
Total Teaching Hours Distribution In Lectures : 16 Hours
The Course is Optional
Bioethics teaching is incorporated into the Continuous
Education Program, and it covers 80% of the total program
Educational Objectives: awareness of normative dimensions,
moral sensitivity, identification of moral issues,
knowledge/information, understanding/explaining, analysis
/reasoning, justification /argumentation
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PROGRAMME / SYLLABUS
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The purpose of this program is to teach the skills
necessary for the health workers to identify, analyze and
resolve ethical problems in patient care situations, and
choose among the options that can be done and those
that ought to be done, for a given patient in a given
clinical setting. We will help the health workers gain
insight into the patient-physician relationship from the
patient's perspective as well as the physician's.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
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Identify moral dilemmas as they arise in clinical
scenarios.
Articulate these dilemmas in terms of conflicting
ethical concerns and norms, including
ethical values (respect, trust, honesty, etc.) and
principles (e.g., autonomy, justice).
Explore and evaluate alternative solutions to given
moral problems.
Defend the solution that decide is best.
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