Ethics and Deontology

Code:

NC1201

Acronym:

ETDEON

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Health Sciences

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Clinical Nutrition

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
NC	18	Oficial Plan	1	-	3	27	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Students at the end of the curricular unit should be able to appreciate and apply ethical and deontological principles, in a professional general and specific perspective, in clinical and scientific activity. The student should be able to look at ethics as inseparable from the professional integrity, envisioning not only the own (professional) but also the wearer, and the institution that directly or indirectly engaged in activity, and considering the norm and the moral, ethical, legal and religious.

Learning outcomes and competences

The contents include different perspectives of ethics and deontological view, in several areas of clinical nutrition and related research, providing an absolute knowledge of the matter that will support the professional activity and attitude.
Provide the student with the knowledge to act consciously and with autonomy, and thus take responsibility and accept the consequences of his actions and clinical and scientific decisions in an ethical and deontological point of view, opening to respect to himself the others and the society.

The lectures provide exposure and interrogation of the contents. The workshop facilitates the discussion of issues and exposure perspectives of peers, notably in matters that given its nature may be the result of controversy, helping the awareness of the presence / divergent understandings that should be considered / respected in professional activity.

Working method

Presencial

Program

General bioethics

Origins and main concepts | Global Bioethics 
Medical ethics | Ethics of care Operability of ethics | Normativity (standard ethical, moral, ethical, legal and religious)

Ethics and financing of health care

Ethics and scientific research
The informed consent. Involuntary, and healthy adults, persons incapable of consenting, children, biological samples and personal data; research animals; research in developing countries, scientific integrity

Ethics, biotechnology and biomedicine Principle responsibility | Pharmacogenetics | Genetically Modified Organisms | Nanotechnology

Ethical principles
Analysis of cases

Mandatory literature

Ordem dos nutricionistas; Código deontológico da ordem dos nutricionistas., Diário da República, 2.ª série — N.º 250 — 27 de dezembro de 2012, 2012

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures -­ expository and interrogative ­ exposure and deepening of knowledge.
Seminar -­ approach and discussion of ethical and deontological aspects in clinical and scientific activity
intensified by the experience of the visiting lectures.
Assessment with final exam.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

The final note corresponds to the evaluation obtained in the exam.