The ethos behind this curriculum is to:
- Provide students with the highest quality learning experience;
- Equip students with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required in professional life;
- Ensure teaching is informed and refreshed by research and best evidence;
- Ensure staff are encouraged and supported in the development of excellent teaching practice.
Content:
1. Ethical theories applied to complex case clinical decision making; Complexities of clinical ethics in integrated health care teams
2. Advanced ethics of reproductive medicine
- Reproductive choice: interest of (1.) parents; (2.) future child; (3.) the state; (4.) preserving life
- Moral status of embryo; Morality of abortion; assisted reproduction.
3. Children and young adults - ethical dilemmas
- Children Act(s); Parental responsibility; Gillick competence; consent to treatment; child abuse
4. Ethics in oncology: incidental findings; personalised treatment
5. Ethics for mental health Definitions of ‘mental disorder’; Mental health Act; Compulsory detention in hospital; treatment outside hospital; crime and mental illness
6. Advanced ethics of palliative care Active/passive euthanasia; competent/incompetent patient; withholding and withdrawing treatment
- Moral principles in end-of-life decisions: sanctity of life, the doctrine of double effect; DNR and limitation to treatment; organ transplantation
7. Cost-Effective Analysis (CEA) and QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Year); calculating quality of life, ageism and needs theory; health responsibility; Rawls’ theory, social factors.
8. Ethical challenges in research design; Ethical principles for medical research: harm, scientific validity, coercion, research participation; sharing benefit, incidental findings.
9. Cross-cultural practice of medicine: ethics issues; medical interpreters, language barriers, truth telling, cultural norms and taboos.
Learning Outcomes
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Learning Outcome / Skill: |
Category: |
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M1 |
To critically apply ethical principles to clinical practice situations, and be prepared to justify your decisions and actions based on sound ethical arguments. |
Learning Outcomes: Master's |
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M2 |
To critically appraise ethical decision-making in your own practice area using key ethical theories and primary and secondary data from a wide range of sources. |
Learning Outcomes: Master's |
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M3 |
To critically analyse the process of ethical decision-making in everyday clinical practice across the lifespan. |
Learning Outcomes: Master's |
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M4 |
To critically analyse and evaluate new biomedical advances and identify the connected ethical issues. |
Learning Outcomes: Master's |
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M5 |
To be able to interpret the relationship between medical ethics and medical professionalism. |
Learning Outcomes: Master's |
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M6 |
To be able to anticipate and categorise ethical challenges inherent to medical research and research design. |
Learning Outcomes: Master's |
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S1 |
Critical thinking |
Skills |
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S2 |
Communication skills |
Skills |
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S3 |
Ethical awareness |
Skills |
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S4 |
Professional behaviour |
Skills |
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S5 |
Reflection |
Skills |
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