COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ACS 2002 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

First And Emergency Aid

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BENNUR KOCA

Offered to

First And Emergency Aid

Course Objective

Have knowledge about health professional ethics principles, public officials ethical behavior
principles and ethical principles concerned about other legislation. Find the required informations to make logical, objective and accurate decisions where they may face with ethical problems in their professional life. Recognizes the value judgment, good or bad, right or wrong, in human relations. Over time they understand the requirements of acting professionally while sick people meeting the care needs. They internalize the necessity of observing the patient's rights and the importance of communication ,according to the code of ethics, with patients and their legal representatives. They recognizes the importance of protecting the reputation of their profession and themselves in the community.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   It describes, philosophy, moral & ethic notions.
2   It may state notions such as; norm, value, culture, tradition.
3   It may question ethic and non-ethic behaviours and come up with a conclusion
4   It grasps the necessity and the importance of the vocational ethic principles
5   It comprehends the vocational ethic principles and may argue on ethical dilemmas
6   It describes the fundamental medical ethic principles.
7   It grasps patient rights subject.
8   It may count ethic codes about its vocation
9   It grasps that it should be giving importance to ethical notions while doing its duty.
10   It may discuss vocation related ethical problems with factual examples.
11   It grasps the experimental animal ethics.
12   The personal information and the information about private medical conditions that it came by during vocational applications, except the patience and others' health risk conditions and writing report according to regulations,it maintains not to reach to 3rd person.
13   It grasps the scientific publication ethics.
14   It may argue on ethical issues such as; euthanasia,abortion,abortus,organ transplant
15   They asess the subject by summarising all of the concepts of the vocational ethics, problems that they faced and how they should act.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Distribution of course aim and purpose and entry to Vocational Ethics course
2 The relation of ethics with philosophy, culture, moral, value and norm concept
3 Notion of ethics
4 Vocation ethics notion and its importance
5 Principles of ethics
6 Ethic dilemma concept
7 Non-ethical behaviours and affecting factors
8 MIDTERM WEEK
9 Ethic codes
10 Patient rights
11 Ethical perspectives about euthanasia
12 Abortion, abortus and ethics
13 Organ transplant and ethics
14 Experimental animal ethics, scientific publication ethics and other athical subjects

Recomended or Required Reading

Print outs of the presentations, photocopies of the lecture notes will be given. Medical ethic books, sientific articles, thesis will be used as references.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The instructor lecture presentations, Role-play applications, discussions with students about ethical issues and problems in the health field

Assessment Methods

To be announced!

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1 mid-term theoretical (%40) +final(%60) +condition examination

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The course is made and evaluated in the frame of SHMYO Education and Examination Rules of Practice

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Öğr.Gör.Bennur KOCA
E-mail:bennur.koca@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Weekly schedule is determined by the teaching staff in accordance

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Midterm 1 1 1
final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61
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LO.8
LO.9
LO.10
LO.11
LO.12
LO.13
LO.14
LO.15

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