LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Apply the rules of professional deontology
- Understand the role of deontology in the quality assurance of health services
- Differentiate between offering patient support and getting emotionally involved
- Appreciate honesty, integrity, behaving responsibly, scientific adequacy and motivation as deontological duties of health workers
- Show professional appraisal
- Deal with ethical dilemmas
- Deal with medical and legal issues of professional incompetence
- Articulate the rights of the patient
- Get patient consent to medical procedure
- Have adequate knowledge of research and deontology – bioethics
The course aims for the student to develop a critical approach to the basic ethical and deontologic dimensions of the practice of medicine and the deontological dilemmas encountered during professional practice.
SYLLABUS
1. Definitions. Distinctions and differences between similar concepts. Historic review
2. Patient rights
3. Basic principles of deontology and bioethics
4. Legislation – Relevant terminology – Procedures of legal claims
5. Protection of patients’ rights
6. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
7. Application of the rules of deontology and good practices in health services in order to improve efficiency
8. Cultural and financial parameters in the implementation of the deontology rules
9. The obligation to inform the patient and obtain consent for the medical procedures
10. Issues of ethics and deontology in medicine and specifically in clinical research
11. Special issues in professional ethics, deontology and bioethics
12. Advances in technology and its management in diagnosis and treatment by the health professionals – technologists
13. Professional rights and duties of the radiologic technologist during professional practice
14. Behavioral issues towards the health service users, colleagues and other health professionals