Unit name | Teaching Ethics and Law in the Health Professions (Unit 213) |
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Unit code | MEEDM0011 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Dr. Deans |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Centre for Medical Education |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
The Unit gives clinical teachers the chance to explore and critique their own views and those of colleagues and scholars in healthcare ethics and law. Students will be introduced to key theories, positions and topics in the field. Through this Unit, students will have the opportunity to develop rigorous methods for evaluating various ethical perspectives, and to become more familiar with nuanced legal positions.
Aims:
In this unit students will develop their ability to:
Students will also develop their knowledge of:
Prior to workshops E-learning
Face to face
The assessments will together comprise 4,000 words or equivalent in other media
Provisional deadline for essay: within 3 months of the first study day for the Unit.
The assignment for this Unit will be an analysis of a particular topic in healthcare ethics. This will be combined with a critical appraisal of teaching practices within their own area of work as it would relate to the chosen topic. Students would be expected to draw on important issues from the education literature and showing evidence of their own reflection on these issues as they occur in professional life. Specifically, the student will need to show how well they can apply the theoretical and practical principles learned on the Unit in real-life teaching situation(s), and to discuss the importance and level of integration of the teaching of ethics in their own cognate discipline.