Special Topics in Clinical Bioethics

Course Information
TitleΕιδικά Θέματα στην Κλινική Βιοηθική / Special Topics in Clinical Bioethics
CodeΙΑ2057
FacultyHealth Sciences
SchoolMedicine
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodSpring
CoordinatorPolychronis Voultsos
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600019797

Programme of Study: UPS of School of Medicine (2019-today)

Registered students: 37
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective Courses632
Class Information
Academic Year2023 – 2024
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Instructors from Other Categories
Class ID
600241345
SectionInstructors
1. Εργ. Ιατροδικαστικής και Τοξικολογίας
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students are expected to, --To have gained deeper knowledge in a range of specific clinical bioethics issues. --To have gained more comfort in handling bioethical thinking and approaching bioethical dilemmas. --To have become familiar with handling the bibliography and writing a scientific text concerning bioethics (review, commenting on articles) --To have acquired comfort in participating in debates regarding controversial bioethical issues or dilemmas. --To have developed critical thought and be able to create new ideas in the field of Bioethics.
General Competences
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The epistemologically independent branch of Bioethics to which the course refers has developed and continues to develop at a rapid pace. As biotechnology develops rapidly, new ethical dilemmas concerning clinical practice (beginning, course, end of human life) constantly arise. The bibliography is enriched daily with many new publications (theoretical analyses, reviews, empirical studies, etc.). The main purpose of the course is the acquisition of bioethical knowledge concerning a specific range of issues which the students choose from a list of bioethical issues proposed by the lecturers. These topics can be classical (such as euthanasia and artificial termination of pregnancy), contemporary (such as assisted reproduction, medical privacy in the modern environment, transplants, involuntary psychiatric hospitalization, genetic material and genetic research, medical research and clinical trials, medicine) as well as and very modern ones, such as cloning, intervention in the human genome, artificial intelligence, Big Data, and the creation of innovative entities that fall between the natural and the artificial.Students delve into very specific issues of Bioethics which concern either the general theory of Bioethics or very specific specific issues of clinical Bioethics, depending on the interests of the students of each academic year.
Keywords
Bioethics; Clinical Bioethics; Bioethical dilemmas
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Video lectures
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
Information and Communication Technologies is used. for communication with groups of students so that there is interactive support for them in order to prepare studies based on the literature (especially international). The examination is done using Tablets.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures240.9✓✓✓
Reading Assigment100.4✓✓✓
Tutorial50.2✓✓
Written assigments150.5✓✓✓
Exams20.1✓✓
Total562
Student Assessment
Description
Students choose the bioethical topics they wish to delve into from a list of topics (a range of available options)suggested by the professors. Each student takes on a topic. Two students may take on a subject when the material is extensive. In each course, each student presents the article he had for study (it changes in each course) as well as his critical comments which he may have made using bibliography.This is followed by a discussion in which all students participate. They all develop their ideas, critique and generate new ideas for further research. The discussion is in interaction with the teachers. In addition, each student has already undertaken a task for the preparation of which he has the continuous support of the teachers. At the end of the lessons there is a presentation of all the assignments and possibly a debate on a controversial issue of bioethics.Finally, the students are examined with development questions (so that they can delve deeper into the topics) on material that includes all the articles and issues discussed in the course during the semester, after the relevant bibliography has been provided by the lecturers.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Βουλτσος Π., Ψαρούλης Δ. Ιατρικό Δίκαιο-Στοιχεία Βιοηθικής. Θεσσαλονίκη: University Studio Press, 2021. O’Neil O. (Μετάφρ, Δρίτσας Θ.). Αυτονομία και Εμπιστοσύνη στη Βιοηθική. Εκδόσεις Αρσενίδης, Αθήνα, 2011.
Additional bibliography for study
Άννα Μαυροφόρου – Γιαννούκα. Βιοηθικοί προβληματισμοί στην ιατρική δεοντολογία. Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Θεσσαλίας, Βόλος, 2012. ISBN: 978-960-9439-02-2 Άννα Μαυροφόρου – Γιαννούκα. Ιατρική ευθύνη και ηθική. Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Θεσσαλίας. Βόλος, 2011 ISBN: 978-960-8029-73-6. Τσινόσεμα Σ. Λούης Κ. Θεματα Βιοηθικης. Η ζωή, η κοινωνία και η φύση μπροστά στις προκλήσεις των βιοεπιστημών. (Συλλογικό). Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, 2013.
Last Update
24-09-2023