COURSE UNIT TITLE

: VETERINARY MED. LEGISLATION AND ETHICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
VET 4040 VETERINARY MED. LEGISLATION AND ETHICS COMPULSORY 1 0 0 2

Offered By

Veterinary Medicine

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI YIĞIT

Offered to

Veterinary Medicine

Course Objective

The aim of this course; It is to provide the necessary information about the legal and ethical responsibilities of veterinarians, to ensure that the students comply with the veterinary legislation, to make the right decision with the help of different problems they may encounter in their professional life, and to put them into practice correctly.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understands the importance of ethical principles in the face of professional problems and provides the ability to use them.
2   Teaches the legal responsibilities of veterinarians.
3   Provides to students with the ability to solve ethical problems that may be encountered in professional and social life.
4   Gains the ability to evaluate legal problems that may be encountered in professional life.
5   Learns the relationship and differences between veterinary ethics and animal use ethics.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 eterinary medicine legislations, professional ethics and aim of the deontology course basic concept on ethics and legislations
2 Deontology/legislation, comprehension of ethics and veterinary legislations
3 Deontology and ethical approaches
4 Veterinary ethics Basic ethical principles and veterinary medicine
5 Veterinary medicine and ethics: ethical relations at professional practices and oath of veterinary medicine
6 Veterinary medicine practices, problems, situation in Türkiye and the world
7 Animal ethics
8 Ethical committees
9 MID-TERM EXAM
10 The legal structure of veterinary practice in Türkiye
11 eterinary legislation within the scope of EU practice, EU legislation in terms of veterinary medicine, EU veterinary medicine legislations
12 Animal rights, animal welfare and ethics
13 Case study: Discussions on professional ethics and legislations
14 Case study: Discussions on professional ethics and legislations

Recomended or Required Reading

Yaşar, A. (2012). Professional Ethics and Veterinary Legislation Lecture notes Rollin, B.E. (1999). An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics Singer, P. (1999). Practical Ethics Fox, M.R., De Marco, J.P. (1990). Moral Reasoning: A Philosophical Approach to Applied Ethics Tannenbaum, J. (1995). Veterinary Ethics

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, question and answer, discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students will be evaluated with questions to be asked in the midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is the student's responsibility to attend 70% of the theoretical courses during the semester. The course time and, if requested, the time specified for homework delivery must be observed. Regarding unethical behaviors that may occur in classes and exams, action will be taken within the framework of the relevant regulation.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dr. Kadri KULUALP
Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Surgery.

Office Hours

Thursday-Friday 16:30-17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 1 14
Preparing presentations 4 6 24
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 40

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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