Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2020-2021
Course director
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Tibor SZOLCSÁNYI
assistant professor,
Department of Behavioural Sciences -
Number of hours/semester
lectures: 0 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 12 hours
total of: 12 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OPE-ETI-T
- 1 kredit
- Pharmacy
- Elective modul
- spring
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Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 25
Topic
The aim of the course is to help students gain sensitivity to the ethical issues connected to the pharmacy practice. During the course students learn about the basic ethical principles governing the pharmacist-patient and the pharmacist-physician relationship. Students also get acquainted with the dilemmas that are raised by the conflict between business and ethics in pharmacy. The most important concerns of research ethics and some specific ethical issues, like the question of mind-enhancing drugs, are also discussed during the course.
Lectures
Practices
Seminars
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A short history of pharmacy
- 3. General ethical viewpoints
- 4. The principle of informed consent in modern health-care
- 5. The ethics of patient-pharmacist relationship
- 6. The ethics of physician-pharmacist relationship
- 7. The conflict between business and ethics in pharmacy
- 8. The placebo effect and its ethical concerns
- 9. Dietary supplements, performance- and mind- enhancing drugs
- 10. Ethical issues in clinical drug trials
- 11. Summarizing discussion
- 12. Test
Reading material
Obligatory literature
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Literature developed by the Department
Additional materials: Neptun MeetStreet
Notes
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Recommended literature
Robert Veatch and Amy Haddad (eds.): Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, New York, 2008
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
Maximum of 25 % absence allowed
Mid-term exams
Written test taking place in the last class. To improve the grade, the test can be repeated two times in the first two weeks of the exam period. Oral exam is also an option for that purpose.
Making up for missed classes
According to the Code of Studies and Examinations
Exam topics/questions
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Examiners
Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars
- Dr. Szolcsányi Tibor