VLET9X2s Medical Ethics 2 - Seminar

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
VLET021p Medical Ethics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Interactive seminar, providing an introduction to clinical ethics, aims to: - understand ethical dilemmas in individual fields of medicine - develop ability to perceive ethical aspects of medicine - listen to different ethical arguments and to express own reasoned opinion - learn ability to solve ethical dilemmas in medicine
Learning outcomes
Having completed the course, the student is able to - identify and to analyze ethical dilemmas in individual areas of medicine - provide ethical arguments for morally relevant clinical situations - solve ethical dilemmas in medicine
Syllabus
  • • The first contact with the patient • Truth and communication • Informed consent • Ethical aspects of assisted reproduction • Ethics in medical genetics • Patients´ rights and duties of physicians • Transplantation ethics • Ethics in oncology and palliative care • Ethical dilemmas in intensive care • Death and dying • End of life decisions • Ethics of biomedical research
Literature
  • KUŘE, Josef. Kapitoly z lékařské etiky. 2., upr. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 114 s. ISBN 9788021059511. info
  • Od narození do smrti : etické problémy v lékařství. Edited by David C. Thomasma - Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner, Translated by Lucie M. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 389 s. ISBN 8020408835. info
  • CAMPBELL, Alastair V., Grant R. GILLETT and D. Gareth JONES. Medical ethics. 4th ed. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2005, xiii, 312. ISBN 0195584872. info
  • Medical ethics. Edited by Michael Boylan - Michael Boylan. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, xvi, 386. ISBN 9781118494752. info
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, Helena. Lékařská etika. třetí rozšířené vydání. Praha: Galén, 2002, 272 pp. ISBN 80-7262-132-7. info
  • Casebook of medical ethics. Edited by Terrence F. Ackerman - Carson Strong. [1st ed.]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xvii, 240. ISBN 0-19-503917-3. info
  • Bioethics. Edited by John Harris. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, vi, 557. ISBN 0198752571. info
  • Medical ethics todaythe BMA's handbook of ethics and the law. 3rd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2012, xxx, 925 p. ISBN 9781444355635. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
Condition for giving course-unit credits is full attendance in all seminars, activity during the course, and case study
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2023, autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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