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| Associate | TR-NQF-HE: Level 5 | QF-EHEA: Short Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 5 | ||
| Course Code: | SHM108 | ||||
| Course Name: | Professional Ethics | ||||
| Semester: | Fall | ||||
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| Language of instruction: | Turkish | ||||
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| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
| Type of course: | Compulsory Courses | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Dr. Öğr. Üy. HİLAL ÇAKAR ÖZCAN | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Tayyibe Bardakçı | ||||
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| 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. |
| 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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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Upon completion of this course, students are expected to gain: -To become familiar with general moral theories and to understand how these theories can assist us in providing healthcare. -To introduce health professional ethics and learn how to apply ethical principles - autonomy, harmlessness, usefulness, justice - to the provision of health services. -To understand the ethical problem areas that healthcare professionals may encounter frequently in daily life. -Discussing issues related to health with social dimensions such as abortion and euthanasia; examining different ethical positions and forming students' own views. -To understand and apply the virtues that must be possessed in order to be a good health professional. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introductory lesson and lesson plan | Lecture notes |
| 2) | Introduction to ethics: The relationship between ethics and philosophy; types of ethics; normative ethical theories | Lecture notes |
| 3) | Basic concepts in ethics and changing paradigms -Learning the concepts of ethics, morality, and law; Understanding paradigm shifts in healthcare. | Lecture notes |
| 4) | 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. | Lecture notes |
| 5) | 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. | 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 | 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. | Lecture notes |
| 8) | Midterm exam | |
| 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. | Lecture notes |
| 10) | Transplantation ethics -Drawing on the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence and justice in transplantation ethics | 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. | Lecture notes |
| 12) | Psychiatry and ethics -To become knowledgeable on ethical issues such as diagnosis of the disease, treatment methods in psychiatry | Lecture notes |
| 13) | Infectious diseases and ethics -To learn some of the major infectious diseases in history and discussing ethical problems regarding COVID19. | Lecture notes |
| 14) | Human experimentation -Learning the ethical rules and declarations based on human experiments. | Lecture notes |
| 15) | Final exam |
| 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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| 1) He/ She has a basic level of theoretical and practical knowledge about oral and dental health. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2) He/ She knows and applies the ethical principles and rules in the field. | ||||||||||||||||
| 3) He/ She participate in sterilization and disinfection studies. | ||||||||||||||||
| 4) He/ She carries out the assigned task independently by using its basic knowledge about oral and dental health field and when it encounters an unpredictable situation, he/she takes responsibility and develops solutions. | ||||||||||||||||
| 5) He/ She has the awareness of lifelong learning and directs his/her education to an advanced level of education in the same field or to a profession at the same level. | ||||||||||||||||
| 6) He/ She evaluates the basic knowledge and skills acquired in the field of Oral and Dental Health with a critical approach; determine learning needs and direct their learning. | ||||||||||||||||
| 7) He/ She is sensitive to the events on the agenda of the community and the world about Oral and Dental Health and follows the developments, informs the related persons and institutions by using the basic knowledge and skills in these subjects. | ||||||||||||||||
| 8) He/ She communicates effectively, | ||||||||||||||||
| 9) He/ She follows information in the field by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio A2 General Level. | ||||||||||||||||
| 10) He/ She use computer software and information and communication technologies at the basic level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. | ||||||||||||||||
| 11) He/ She contributes to social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of collecting, interpreting, applying and announcing the data related to Oral and Dental Health field. | ||||||||||||||||
| 12) He/ She behaves and participates in the quality management and processes. | ||||||||||||||||
| 13) He/ She has enough awareness about individual and public health, environmental protection and occupational safety. | ||||||||||||||||
| 14) He/ She develops himself/ herself by following the developments in science and technology related to his field with the awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning. | ||||||||||||||||
| 15) His/ Her appearance, attitude, attitude and behavior make it an example for society. | ||||||||||||||||
| 16) Has basic theoretical and applied knowledge about Oral and Dental Health. Knows the ethical principles and rules of oral and dental health. | ||||||||||||||||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | He/ She has a basic level of theoretical and practical knowledge about oral and dental health. | |
| 2) | He/ She knows and applies the ethical principles and rules in the field. | |
| 3) | He/ She participate in sterilization and disinfection studies. | |
| 4) | He/ She carries out the assigned task independently by using its basic knowledge about oral and dental health field and when it encounters an unpredictable situation, he/she takes responsibility and develops solutions. | |
| 5) | He/ She has the awareness of lifelong learning and directs his/her education to an advanced level of education in the same field or to a profession at the same level. | |
| 6) | He/ She evaluates the basic knowledge and skills acquired in the field of Oral and Dental Health with a critical approach; determine learning needs and direct their learning. | |
| 7) | He/ She is sensitive to the events on the agenda of the community and the world about Oral and Dental Health and follows the developments, informs the related persons and institutions by using the basic knowledge and skills in these subjects. | |
| 8) | He/ She communicates effectively, | |
| 9) | He/ She follows information in the field by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio A2 General Level. | |
| 10) | He/ She use computer software and information and communication technologies at the basic level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. | |
| 11) | He/ She contributes to social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of collecting, interpreting, applying and announcing the data related to Oral and Dental Health field. | |
| 12) | He/ She behaves and participates in the quality management and processes. | |
| 13) | He/ She has enough awareness about individual and public health, environmental protection and occupational safety. | |
| 14) | He/ She develops himself/ herself by following the developments in science and technology related to his field with the awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning. | |
| 15) | His/ Her appearance, attitude, attitude and behavior make it an example for society. | |
| 16) | Has basic theoretical and applied knowledge about Oral and Dental Health. Knows the ethical principles and rules of oral and dental health. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
| Final | 1 | % 60 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
| Course Hours | 15 | 28 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 19 |
| Midterms | 1 | 1 |
| Final | 1 | 1 |
| Total Workload | 49 | |