Course on Research ethics and bioethics

2nd year - 2 Credits

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, the Ph.D. student has acquired a reference vocabulary to understand the exact terminology when it comes to bioethics and research ethics; knows the main international medical bioethics and research ethics documents; acquires the tools to write an ethically oriented research project and the main information for submitting a project to the ethics committee; understands how to implement bioethics in one's professional practice; and knows ethics of AI in healthcare.

 

 

 

Course - Doctor Ludovica De Panfilis

Course Contents

1. Reference Vocabulary: Ethics, Clinical Ethics, Bioethics, and Research Ethics
The first lesson aims to provide doctoral students with a reference vocabulary to understand the exact terminology when discussing bioethics and research ethics.

2. Research Ethics: History and Concepts
The lesson is dedicated to presenting the main international documents on medical bioethics and research ethics.

3. Research Ethics: Ethical Review of a Project, Ethics Committee for Research
The lesson aims to explain what the ethical review of a project consists of, to provide the tools for writing an ethically oriented research project and the main information for submitting a project to the ethics committee.

4. Empirical Bioethics: A Form of Translational Research
The lesson focuses on research in empirical bioethics.

5. Bioethics at the Patient's Bedside: Tools and Outcomes
The lesson focuses on how to implement bioethics in one's professional practice.

6. Ethics of AI in healthcare: an overview