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Medical Deontology and Law

Code 14211
Year 3
Semester A1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(50H)/TC(10H)/TP(10H)
Scientific area Human Sciences
Entry requirements -
Mode of delivery Presential teaching
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes 1 - To transmit knowledge about the regulatory and legal framework of the medical profession. 2 - To promote reflection on the grounds of Ethics, Ethics and Law, with special focus on medical practice. 3 - To develop skills in applying the rules in practical context. The future master in medicine must: 1 - Know what the legal framework for their profession and the normative content of the documents relating to it with obligatory character, for example, the Code of Ethics 2 - Be able to reflect on the foundations of ethics and science, understand its functions and social connections and understand its historical insertion. 3 - Be able to apply the ethical standards and laws to solve ethical problems of the medical practice in a real context, which requires a weight and a wisdom that go beyond the mere mechanical application of the rule and the law.
Syllabus 1 - Basis Ethics
1.1 - Fundamentals
1.2 - Theories
1.3 - Values of the European Society
1.4 - Neurological Bases
1.5 - Business ethics

2 - Professional ethics
2.1 - Code of Ethics
2.2 - Autonomy, Informed Consent
2.3 - Equity and distributive justice
2.4 - Ethics FGM
2.5 - Ethics in hospital medicine
2.6 - Offices and private practice
2.7 - Transparency in Health
2.8 - medical relations / pharmaceutical industry.
2.9 - Ethics early in life
2:10 - Ethics at the end of life
2.11 - psychiatric patient and not competent

3 - Introduction to Law

4 - Medical Law in the Portuguese legal system
4.1 - Fundamental rights
4.2 - Personality Rights and foundations of civil law
4.3 - Criminal Law
4.4 - Disciplinary Law
4.5 - the NHS Organisational Structure
4.6 - The Doctor in the organizational structure

5 - Ethics in Research
5.1 - Declaration of Helsinki
5.2 - Ethics Committees
5.3 - Authoring and plagiarism
5.4 - Animal Research
Main Bibliography Livros essenciais:
Ética e Deontologia
1. British Medical Association (2004). Medical Ethics Today – BMA’s Handbook of Ethics and Law. BMJ Publishing Group
2. Post (2004) - Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Macmillan USA
3. Singer & Viens (2008). Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics. Cambridge University Press
4. Steinbock (2007). Oxford Handbook of Bioethics. Oxford University Press

Direito
1. Guedes (2008). Direito Biomédico - Colectânea de legislação e outros documentos. Quid Juris
2. Moniz (2008). Legislação de Direito da Medicina. Coimbra Editora
3. Oliveira (2005). Temas de Direito da Medicina. Coimbra Editora

Documentos:
Código Deontológico da Ordem dos Médicos
Outros códigos deontológicos de associações médicas europeias e ocidentais
Declaração de Helsínquia
Outras resoluções da World Medical Association
Carta dos Direitos e Deveres dos Doentes da Direcção Geral de Saúde
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2021-07-29

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