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About Study Course

ECTS:3
Course supervisor:Vija Sīle
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medical Services; Medicine; Pharmacy; Psychology
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Health care sciences and services

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.

Prerequisites

In Philosophy of medicine, bioethics.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Know terminology of ethics, regulatory documents related to health care and research processes, basic principles and codes of ethics.

Skills

1.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.

Competence

1.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.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Health Care (subprogramme Pharmacy) 1DoctorRequiredVents Sīlis, Vija Sīle
Health Care (subprogramme Medicine)1DoctorRequiredVents Sīlis, Vija Sīle
Health Care (subprogramme Medicine) 1DoctorRequiredVents Sīlis, Vija Sīle
Health Care (subprogramme Psychology) 1DoctorRequiredVents Sīlis, Vija Sīle