| Course Objectives: |
-To know how to behave in difficult decision-making situations while performing the health profession,
-To have information about ethical rules and legal regulations,
-To be able to demonstrate ethical values appropriate to the identity of a health professional,To follow the problems of the society, to understand and analyze them with a scientific point of view.
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| Course Content: |
In this course, the rules that healthcare professionals should obey will be explained and the desired behaviors in healthcare provision will be examined. General moral theories such as virtue ethics, deontological ethics, and utilitarian ethics will be adapted to the field of health and an answer to the question ‘How to be a good health professional?’ will be sought. Topics such as, communication with the patients and their relatives, respect for patient privacy, patient rights and legal regulations on these issues will be given and discussed. |
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Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Introductory lesson and lesson plan |
Lecture notes |
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Introduction to ethics: The relationship between ethics and philosophy; types of ethics; normative ethical theories |
Lecture notes |
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Basic concepts in ethics and changing paradigms
-Learning the concepts of ethics, morality, and law; Understanding paradigm shifts in healthcare.
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Lecture notes |
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The principles of medical ethics and ethical dilemmas
-To explain the basic principles of medical ethics: respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice; to learn how to behave in ethical dilemmas.
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Lecture notes |
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Patient rights and international declarations
-To have information about the legislations regarding patient rights (Patient Rights Bill etc.) in our country, as well as the international declarations such as Lisbon and Amsterdam.
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Lecture notes |
| 6) |
Health professional and patient relationship
-Describing the effective communication between health professional-patients and discussing pros and cons of four ethical models
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Lecture notes |
| 7) |
Ethical issues about the beginning of life
-Understanding ethical problems regarding the beginning of life and discussing the important issues such as abortion.
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Lecture notes |
| 8) |
Midterm exam |
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| 9) |
Ethical issues about the end of life
-Learning the new concepts regarding end of life decisions such as brain death, advance directives, euthanasia, etc.
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Lecture notes |
| 10) |
Transplantation ethics
-Drawing on the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence and justice in transplantation ethics
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Lecture notes |
| 11) |
Ethical issues in pediatrics
-Learning basic differences between adult medicine and pediatrics, and ethical issues on parents’ decision-making involvement in pediatrics, informed consent, etc.
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| 12) |
Psychiatry and ethics
-To become knowledgeable on ethical issues such as diagnosis of the disease, treatment methods in psychiatry
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| 13) |
Infectious diseases and ethics
-To learn some of the major infectious diseases in history and discussing ethical problems regarding COVID19.
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Lecture notes |
| 14) |
Human experimentation
-Learning the ethical rules and declarations based on human experiments.
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Lecture notes |
| 15) |
Final exam |
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| Course Notes / Textbooks: |
-Ders notları
-Lecture notes |
| References: |
-Hakan Ertin, Modern Tıp ve Etik I, İstanbul: BETİM Kitaplığı, 2020.
-Mehmet Türkeri (Ed.), Etik Kuramları, Lotus Yayınevi, 2009.
-Nigel Warburton, Felsefenin Kısa Tarihi, İstanbul: Alfa Yayınları, 2008.
-Sevtap Metin, Biyotıp Etiği ve Hukuk, İstanbul: BETİM Kitaplığı, 2019.
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
Anesthesia technician has professional consciousness. |
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| 2) |
He/She knows the duties, authorities and responsibilities of the anesthesia technician and exhibits ethical behaviors that will carry out harmonious teamwork in the operating room. |
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| 3) |
He/She has the basic knowledge, skills and equipment suitable to the contemporary health technician approach, to be able to carry out communication with the patient, to take responsibility and to develop solutions when faced with an unforeseen situation related to the field. |
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Without giving any harm to patients,he/she gives importance to hygiene asepsis-antisepsis, sterilization, contamination and infection with the basic knowledge about the health care work environment. |
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| 5) |
He/She recognizes and uses the medical terms used in anesthesia applications. |
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| 6) |
He/She knows the basic structure and functions of human body and biochemical mechanisms and uses them in their professional studies. |
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| 7) |
He/She has information about basic anatomy and diseases related to systems. |
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| 8) |
While applying his / her profession, he / she can benefit from appropriate information sources and information technologies. |
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| 9) |
He/She has awareness of lifelong learning. |
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| 10) |
He/She follows information in the field by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio A2 General Level. |
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| 11) |
He/She has knowledge about ethical principles and rules in the field. |
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| 12) |
He/She uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of at least European Computer Driving License required by the field. |
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| 13) |
He/She has internalized team work, has the knowledge of basic anesthetic pharmacology and performs anesthetic and analgesic applications together with anesthesia physician. |
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| 14) |
To have general first aid knowledge and to show proper approach and correct application skills in emergency situations. |
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| 15) |
He/She has the necessary discipline for team work and carries out activities for the development of employees under its responsibility. |
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