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Health Care and Research Ethics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:46
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | HZK_055 | LQF level: | Level 8 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Psychology; Medical Services; Pharmacy; 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) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 0 | Class Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 0 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | In Philosophy of medicine, bioethics. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Acquaint doctoral students with the guidelines of modern ethics in healthcare and research and their application in practice – current challenges and possible solutions, develop ethically justified attitudes toward towards patients and colleagues, as well as other people involved in medicine and research. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Relationship between legal and ethical aspects in medicine and research | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | International and local laws and regulations | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Basic principles of ethics in health care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Rights, duties and responsibilities. Ethical monitoring system | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Basic principles of research ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Balancing risks and benefits in research | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Topical issues in medical ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Topical issues in research ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | An essay, choosing one topic of the list of proposed topics or, in agreement with the lecturer on the current problem of own doctoral thesis, provided that it corresponds thematically to the topics covered in the course. In the lecture of the course lecturer, which takes place in the form of a dialogue, the doctoral student gives a 5-minute presentation on the chosen topic. The doctoral student searches for literature independently. The essay is submitted one day before the examination and its minimum length is 1000 words. The aim of the essays is to develop cognitive analytical competence. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Assessment according to a 10-point grading system: examination (written) – 40%, independently prepared essays and their presentation – 60%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Know terminology of ethics, regulatory documents related to health care and research processes, basic principles and codes of ethics. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Know key issues related to health care and research ethics, able to address problems, identify ethical challenges related to the context of biomedical research, analyse cases and analyse ethical issues related to the research design, evaluate the ethical arguments used in the description of biomedical research. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Knowledge of key issues related health care and research ethics, problem resolution, identification of ethical challenges in research, analysis of research design, evaluation of ethical arguments in the descriptions of biomedical research. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Konvencija par cilvēktiesību un cieņas aizsardzību bioloģijā un medicīnā - Ovjedo, 1997. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Pasaules Ārstu asociācijas Helsinku deklarācija - Latvijas Ārsts, 2013, Nr. 10, 5.-6.lpp. | ||||||||
| 3 | Pacientu tiesību likums: LV likums. Latvijas Vēstnesis. 205(4191). | ||||||||
| 4 | Ašnevica, S., Gusarova, A., Lieljuksis A. u. c. 2015. Medicīnas tiesības. Rīga: Tiesu nama aģentūra | ||||||||
| 5 | Sīle, V. (sast.), Biomedicīnas ētika: teorija un prakse, 2006. Rīga, Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 6 | Vaughn, L., Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases. 2019. 4th ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, | ||||||||
| 7 | Research in Medical and Biological Sciences (ed. by Petter Laake). 2015. London : Academic Press. | ||||||||
| 8 | Beauchamp, T.L. and J.F. Childress, 2013. Principles of biomedical ethics, 7th edn., New York, Oxford University Press. | ||||||||
| 9 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students | ||||||||
| 10 | Vaughn, L., Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases. 2019. 4th ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, | ||||||||
| 11 | Research in Medical and Biological Sciences (ed. by Petter Laake). 2015. London : Academic Press. | ||||||||
| 12 | Beauchamp, T.L. and J.F. Childress, 2013. Principles of biomedical ethics, 7th edn., New York, Oxford University Press. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Palčeja, E. un Bankava, A. 2018. Pacientu drošība un ārstniecības personu juridiskās atbildības līkloči. Jurista Vārds. 34(1040) | ||||||||
| 2 | The Cambridge textbook of bioethics, editor-in-chief P.A. Singer, 2008. Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||||
| 3 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students | ||||||||
| 4 | The Cambridge textbook of bioethics, editor-in-chief P.A. Singer, 2008. Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Latvijas ārstu ētikas kodekss (arstubiedriba.lv) | ||||||||
| 2 | Pētniecības ētika | BIOR | ||||||||
