gsw180 - Ethics in Medicine

Enrolment in Master´s programme Molecular Biomedicine

Competencies:
++ deepened medical / ethical expertise with a focus on research ethics
++ interdisciplinary thinking
++ critical and analytical thinking
  + independent searching and knowledge of scientific literature
  + ability to perform independent biological research
++ data presentation and discussion (written and spoken)
  + team work
++ ethics and professional behaviour
  + project and time management

Concept of ethics and central theoretical approaches to ethics
Research ethical standards and their evolution
Good scientific practice (scientific misconduct, criteria of authorship, documentation of research, IRB approval)
Central areas of ethically sensitive research (stem cell and embryonic research, genomic research, clinical studies, social research)
Ethical problems in research (research with incompetent and vulnerable populations

Excerpts from relevant textbooks (e.g., Beauchamp, T., Childress, J. F. (2013): Principles of Biomedical Ethics; Emanuel, E. J., Grady, C. C., Crouch, R. A., Lie, R. K., Miller, F. G., Wendler, D. D. (eds.) (2008): The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics; Hughes, J., Hunter, D., Sheehan, M., Wilkinson, S., Wrigley, A. (2010): European Textbook on Ethics in Research); current research articles

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