Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students):

• Recognize the ethical principles and values applicable to medical sciences
• Describe ethical problems arising from the contexts of medical sciences
• Critically and ethically analysis of the deliberation processes in medical sciences
• Generate deliberation procedures in replying to ethical dilemmas/problems
• Recognize Bioethics as a tool for the humanization of medical sciences
• Elaborate an essays on ethical problems of medical sciences

Syllabus:

• Foundations of Ethics and Bioethics related to medical sciences
• Bioethics and humanization of health care
• Principles, values, rights and ethical duties, with special application in medical sciences.
• Ethical decision methodologies, particularly ethical deliberation process in health sciences.
• Ethical dilemmas and problems – discussion of cases using ethical deliberation, on topics from the different areas of specialty of medical
• sciences