The medical bioethics course should help to provide enrolled students with the following skills: -Be clear about some basic concepts in clinical and research ethics: autonomy, beneficence, justice, etc. -To be aware of the importance of the development of bioethics in the South. -Know how to analyse a clinical situation using certain classic methodological tools. -Be open to the human dimension of health care practices
-Be clear about some basic concepts in clinical and research ethics: autonomy, beneficence, justice, etc. -To be aware of the importance of bioethics development in the South. -Know how to analyse a clinical situation using certain classic methodological tools. -Be open to the human dimension of care practices.
The medical bioethics course consists of 3 parts. 1. A general introduction to bioethics presenting the history and the context of emergence of this discipline. 2. A section on clinical ethics. First, various moral systems underlying human decisions are presented. A significant place is reserved for the issue of health care ethics in the South. 3. A section on research ethics. Six major principles regulating research on human beings are examined, with particular emphasis on the ethics of research in developing countries.
Written exam or written exercice
Laurent RAVEZ, Introduction to public health ethics, Sauramps Médical, 2020.