HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE CONTINUOUS ETHICS EDUCATION PROGRAM

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HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE
CONTINUOUS ETHICS EDUCATION PROGRAM
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ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES OF THE STUDENTS

• Medicine
• Pharmacy
• Dentistry
• Nursing
• Health Administration
• Health Technology
• Health Services
• Physical Therapy Rehabilition
• Social work
• Healthcare Professionals

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• This course is designed for clinicians, nurses,
  physician assistants, nurse practitioners,
  chaplains, social workers, hospital and clinic
  administrators, and others involved in patient
  care, plus ethics educators and other individuals
  interested in clinical ethics issues.

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• Number Of Students 40-60
• Total Teaching Hours Distribution In Lectures
  16 Hours
• The Course is Optional
• Bioethics teaching is incorporated into the
  Continuous Education Program, and it covers 80
  of the total program
• Educational Objectives awareness of normative
  dimensions, moral sensitivity, identification of
  moral issues, knowledge/information,
  understanding/explaining, analysis /reasoning,
  justification /argumentation

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PROGRAMME / SYLLABUS

• The purpose of this program is to teach the
  skills necessary for the health workers to
  identify, analyze and resolve ethical problems in
  patient care situations, and choose among the
  options that can be done and those that ought to
  be done, for a given patient in a given clinical
  setting. We will  help the health workers gain
  insight into the patient-physician relationship
  from the patient's perspective as well as the
  physician's.

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COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Identify moral dilemmas as they arise in clinical
  scenarios.
•  Articulate these dilemmas in terms of
  conflicting ethical concerns and norms,
  includingethical values (respect, trust,
  honesty, etc.) and principles (e.g., autonomy,
  justice).
•  Explore and evaluate alternative solutions to
  given moral problems.
•  Defend the solution that decide is best.