| Unit name | Teaching Medical Ethics (Unit 213) |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MEDIM0213 |
| Credit points | 15 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Greenwood |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Medicine |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
The unit will raise the competence and confidence of clinical teachers in the rapidly expanding field of clinical ethics. The advent of clinical governance in trusts makes this an important priority in medical education.
Participants will at the conclusion of the Unit:
This is a 15 Credit Unit and therefore requires 150 hours work to be associated with it. This will be achieved as follows: 15 hours contact time during the two study days plus 135 hours study to include background reading, researching and writing the assignment, and any 1:1 tutorial time with tutors.
The principle teaching and learning methods will include the following:
An assignment comprising 3,000 words.
Provisional deadlines: within 3 months of the first study day for the Unit.
The assignment for this Unit will be a work-based project based on the teaching of ethics within the student's own workplace or educational setting. The student will critically appraise practices within their own area of work, drawing 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.
