Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Medical Ethics: Theory and Practice
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3770-21-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 06/04/2021

Date and time	18.05.2021, at: 09:00 - 21.05.2021, at: 16:00
Regular seats	14
Course fee	6,360.00 kr.
Lecturers	Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox
ECTS credits	3.20

Contact person	Kathe Jensen E-mail address: kje@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1.Describe different moral theories and ethical principles 2.Explain the role of ethics in medical practice in particular and health care at large 3.Demonstrate the use of ethical reasoning in health and illness studies 4.Facilitate case analysis of ethical questions 5.Differentiate clearly between ethical (normative) and factual (descriptive) questions Content In the 20th century, medical science and technology have created a multitude of questions that bear a strong moral element. Beginning and end-of-life issues, criteria for patient selection and boundary setting for treatment intensity demonstrate how values, beliefs, attitudes, emotions and reasons underlay medical decision making. In addressing the many contemporary issues facing medical practice and the medical sciences, moral philosophy serve as a foundation for critical analysis. “Medical Ethics: Theory and Practice” explores the relationship between moral philosophy and medicine. The course addresses the growing need for advanced training in medical ethics for health care professionals and scholars of the medical and health sciences. The structure of the course enacts some of the foundational elements of medical ethics as it informs intellectual, educational, and investigative work in the field: •Day 1: Moral theory and ethical principles. The first day provides an introduction to basic ethical theory which is intended to serve as a background aid for thinking through particular issues that are being discussed in the course. The day will also introduce a conceptual framework of dominating principles in medical ethics and the long history behind the principles. Through moral theories and ethical principles we see how different perspectives and ways of reasoning shape and nuance complex issues. •Day 2: Ethics in practice: Clinical ethics and ethics consultation. The second day concerns how to practically address and assess the ethical aspect of medical practice. We will work with ethics across the care continuum and ethics consultation simulation by virtue of specific reflection models for ethical analysis. In addition, we will apply knowledge of moral theories and ethical principles to fundamental issues in medical practice. Concrete cases will be used to identify and analyze its ethical questions and dilemmas. •Day 3: Guest lectures: Professor Bert Molewijk and Docent Suzanne Metselaar will lecture on different aspects of clinical ethics as it pertains to their work. Molewijk is professor at the Department of Medical Humanities, VU University Amsterdam and Associate Professor of clinical ethics at the University of Oslo. Metselaar is Docent at the Department of Medical Humanities at VU University Amsterdam. After guest lectures, a new written assignment will be presented and students will spend the afternoon working on it. • Day 4: Presentation and discussion on new written assignment (only afternoon, 12:30-15:00) All participating students must submit a paper of 5 pages prior to the course (instructions will follow once your spot on the course has been confirmed). The idea of the paper is for the students to reflect on the theme of the course in the context of his/her PhD project. The papers are the basis for our afternoon sessions. Participants Participants are PhD. students doing research in health/illness topics that explore its ethical elements or who have an interest in medical ethics/ethical aspects of medicine and health care. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Medicine, Culture and Society Public Health and Epidemiology Psychiatry Language English. Form Lectures and discussions in the morning. Student papers and discussions in the afternoon. Course director Associate Professor Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (email: knox@sund.ku.dk) Teachers Associate Professor Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox (PhD) Professor MSO Ezio Di Nucci (PhD), Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen Professor Bert Molewijk (PhD), Department of Medical Humanities, VU University Amsterdam and the University of Oslo Docent Suzanne Metselaar (PhD), Department of Medical Humanities, VU University Amsterdam. Dates 18 - 21 May 2021 (3 1/2 day). Course location CSS, Department of Public Health Section for Health Services Research Øster Farimagsgade 5 1014 Copenhagen K Registration Please register before 6 April 2021. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. PhD students from Nordic countries who are enrolled in an university that is part of the Nordoc agreement, can attend PhD courses at SUND free of charge. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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