Aims

At the end of this program the student must realize that the practice of medicine has to take into account many societal dimensions and rules; care and cure have ethical, deontological, legal, economical and public health dimensions.
The student faced with the clinical problems must be able to rise and formulate the appropriate questions in the fields of ethics, deontology, law, economics and public health.

Main themes

The meaning of disease for the patient and the clinician, the respect of the patient in his body and freedom, the responsibility of the care giver, the promotion of health, the patient's education, mistakes and fault in medical practice, national health organisation, the founding of national resources for medical care, the quality of care and the quality of health, equity in the use of resources for medical care.

Content and teaching methods

Seminar are organized on particular topics chosen by the students according their clinical experience and resulting questioning. The proposed answers to solve the analysed problem is discussed and summarized for both oral and written presentations.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation is based on three aspects: the active participation to the seminars, the oral and the written presentations of the results of the seminar.

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