Ethics, Medicine and Society
Objectives
Ethics, Medicine and Society is an Integrative Curricular Unit formed by three
modules.
The module of Ethics, Deontology and Medical Law has as its prime goals to endow
the medicine student with the essential knowledge on deontological standards of
conduct of the Portuguese Medical Order, on the major problems of ethics applied
to contemporary medicine and on the fundamental basis for the framework of the
medical profession on the norms, regulations, and legal precepts involved in
medical liability.
The module Introduction to legal Medicine it is intended to provide the IMM student
by the NOVA Medical School with a brief presentation to Legal medicine, as a
complement of the Ethical, Deontology and Medical Law Module.
This module "The Doctor, The Patient and The Society" intends to introduce the
student to the major questions related to the exercise of the medical profession
nowadays and with the broader subject of the political and economic implications
of health care provision systems.
General characterization
Code
107026
Credits
3
Responsible teacher
Diogo de Freitas Branco Pais,JESSICA LUISA VICENTE CHAMBINO FARIAS RODRIGUES,FABIO MIGUEL OLIVEIRA MATIAS,SUSANA ISABEL MATEUS SANTOS
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 84
Teaching language
PT
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Available soon
Teaching method
Ethics Deontology and Medical Law-1 lecture of introduction to the major
themes, following case discussion sessions presenting dilemmatic
situations regarding the major legal-ethical and deontological questions of
medicine. Each subject is studied through the presentation and discussion,
by groups of students, of real or constructed case scenarios. All ethical,
deontological and legal pertinent aspects will be introduced along the
discussion. Introduction to legal medicine-composed of 9 lectures - include
the presentation and discussion of practical examples. The Doctor, the
Patient and the Society-10 lectures distributed, in a balanced manner,
between the themes of medical professionalism and health politics and
economics.
Evaluation method
Assessment will include providing the 3 certificates-training-
TRREE website-10% of the Final Score, oral presentation of an Ethics
Deontology and Medical Law case(s) (group work)¿ 20% of the Final Score.
The written examination will make up 70% of the final grade.
Subject matter
Ethics Deontology and Medical Law:
Definitions and Principals: Introduction; Principles of Bioethics; Introduction to the
Deontology Code; Medical Liability
Legal-Ethical and Deontological Questions: Rights and Duties of Doctors and
Patients; Informed Consent; Health Power of Attorney; Medical Confidentiality; Joint
and Several Liability; Medical Emergency; Chronical Patient; Liberty Deprived
Patient; Genic Therapy; Rights of the Embryo; Reproduction; Transplantation;
Human experimentation; Euthanasia/Disthanasia
Introduction to legal Medicine: Introduction; Concepts of Death; General;
Semiology of Violent Death; Medical Expert Assessment and Damage Evaluation in
Civil Court, Criminal Proceedings and Work Indemnities; Doctor Social Role
The Doctor, The Patient and The Society: Professionalism in medicine; Burnout in
doctors; Doctors and the economic elements of health; Health policies and
programmes implementation; Organisational determinants in health
Health services management.