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Medical Ethics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:38
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | HZK_016 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Philosophy; Ethics | Target Audience: | Medical Technologies; Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Vija Sīle | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Prior knowledge in ethics is desirable. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To introduce medical engineers to the requirements of normative ethics, the specifics of professional and medical ethics, basic principles and application thereof in practice. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Specifics of professional and medical ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Medical ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Normative ethics | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Doctor-patient relationship | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The principle of “do no harm” | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Professional liability of physicians | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | The principle of doing good | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Research ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | The principle of confidentiality and privacy | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Health care system | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | The principle of “do no harm” | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | The principles of doing good, privacy and confidentiality | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | The principle of fairness | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Moral conflicts and ethical dilemmas | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | The principle of double effect | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 16 | Euthanasia, life and medicine | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students independently learn the chosen topic and are able to discuss, answer questions and encourage discussion, prepare presentations, learn primary and secondary literature. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Knowledge is assessed on a 10-point scale: * Academic performance in seminars – 20% (which includes 10% for the work in the seminar, 10% for the presentation); * Knowledge test (SRP) on lecture topics – 40%; * Knowledge test (SRP) on seminar topics – 40% | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | About the concepts of professional and medical ethics used in the course (person, autonomy, fairness, responsibility, basic principles of medical ethics, etc.), moral dilemmas and options for solving them. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To organise one’s views on the topics of normative, professional and medical ethics learned in the course, use arguments from different directions of ethics; to analyse ethical dilemmas and specific cases, to discuss with arguments. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Analytical and critical thinking abilities – cognitive competence, as well as communicative competence acquired in the practical classes. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Biomedicīnas ētika: teorija un prakse. Rīga, RSU, 2006. (akceptējams izdevums/approved publication) | ||||||||
| 2 | Klīve V.V. Rīcības ceļos. Rīga, Zinātne, 1998. (akceptējams izdevums/approved publication) | ||||||||
| 3 | Konvencija par cilvēktiesību un cieņas aizsardzību bioloģijā un medicīnā. | ||||||||
| 4 | Poļaks Rihards. Tiesības uz nāvi: eitanāzijas krimināltiesiskie, medicīniskie un ētiskie aspekti / Rihards Poļaks. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2016 | ||||||||
| 5 | Williams, John R. Medicīnas ētikas rokasgrāmata. 2.izd., 2009. (akceptējams izdevums/approved publication) | ||||||||
| 6 | Medical law and ethics / Jonathan Herring. 8th ed. New York : OUP, 2020. | ||||||||
| 7 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students: | ||||||||
| 8 | Medical law and ethics / Jonathan Herring. 8th ed. New York : OUP, 2020. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bioethics : the basics / Alastair V. Campbell. 2nd ed. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. | ||||||||
| 2 | Principles of Biomedical Ethics / Tom L. Beauchamp, James F. Childress. 7th ed., New York : OUP, 2013. | ||||||||
| 3 | The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics / edited by Bonnie Steinbock. Oxford ; OUP, 2009. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | https://enciklopedija.lv/skirklis/61167 | ||||||||
| 2 | https://likumi.lv/ta/id/203008-pacientu-tiesibu-likums | ||||||||
