Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas

Research Ethics

Code

101209

Academic unit

NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas

Credits

3

Teacher in charge

Prof. Doutor Diogo de Freitas Branco Pais

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The Medical and research Ethics' main learning outcomes are the knowledge of Ethical standards of conduct of the Portuguese Medical Association, of the major problems of Bioethics as applied to Contemporary Medicine and of the legal framework of the medical profession, with knowledge of the rules, regulations and legal requirements involved in Medical Liability (Civil, Criminal and Disciplinary). Special emphasis is given to Ethics of Clinical Research. Rather than forcing the participant to assimilate a lot of information that he/she may easily forget, it is intended to provide and put into practice the set of tools necessary for the analysis of real cases with dilemmatic situations with deontological, ethical and /or legal implications, that the clinician may encounter in his/her daily professional activities.

Prerequisites

n/a

Subject matter

I - Introduction to Medical Ethics, Deontology and Law: Fundamental Principles of Bioethics; Overview of the Code of Ethics of the Portuguese Medical Association; Medical Liability (Civil, Criminal and Disciplinary).

 

II - Case studies with dilemmatic situations on major ethical and legal issues of contemporary medicine, including: the duties of doctors, informed consent, medical professional secrecy (confidentiality), the medical expert, error in health care and patient safety, medical emergency, the revelation of truth, the patient in jail, gene therapy, embryo's rights, abortion, euthanasia, dysthanasia, medically assisted reproduction, sterilization, transplantation, the advance directives and clinical research (TRREE e-learning modules and Master António Faria Vaz’s classes).

Bibliography

Esperança-Pina, J.A. (2013). Ética, Deontologia e Direito Médico. Lidel, Edições Técnicas Lda.

André G. Dias Pereira. Direitos dos Pacientes e Responsabilidade Médica –Coimbra Editora, 2015

Fragata, F. & Martins, L. (2004). O Erro em Medicina, Perspetivas do Indivíduo, da Organização e da Sociedade.

Almedina. da Silva, P. M. (coord.) (2008.). Investigação Biomédica, Reflexões Éticas. Gradiva.

Beauchamp, T. L. & Childress, J. F. (2009). Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Oxford University Press.

Moniz, H. (2008) Legislação de Direito da Medicina. Coimbra Editora.

TRREE (www.trree.org) - Formação e Recursos na Avaliação de Ética em Pesquisa/Investigação.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Christine C. Grady, Robert A. Crouch, Reidar K. Lie, Franklin G. Miller, David D. Wendler (Editors). The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. OUP USA, 2011

Documentação e legislação avulsa distribuída em cada tempo letivo para estudo e discussão dos casos.

Teaching method

Lectures, case-discussion classes and two classes in e-learning system of the TRREE website

(http://elearning.trree.org/).

Evaluation method

The students’ assessment will result from the sum of two elements:

1) writing a text, of the student's choice, from among a set of themes of the scope of the CU (80% of the final grade).

2 ) sending in the two certificates of completion of Module 1 (Introduction to Research) and Module 2.1 (Ethical Evaluation of Research) on the TRREE e-learning website (http://elearning.trree.org/) (20% of the final grade).

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