HSP 102 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name
Human Society Planet II
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
HSP 102
Spring
2
0
2
3

Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Required
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery Blended
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course Lecture / Presentation
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives In this course; students are expected to understand the importance of protecting the ecosystem and its components, the effects of air, water and soil pollution on human health, to learn the negative ,effects of chemicals, radiation and noise, and to define universal ethical principles / values and the scope of international contracts related to universal ethical principles. In addition, they will have knowledge about the definition and scope of the concept medical professionalism, the process of gaining professional values, which is an important component of the development of physician identity. In this course they will also learn what ethics and bioethics are as definition and what these fields entail. In parallel, they will learn about the basic principles, approaches and concepts of medical ethics and analyze their manifestations in practice through cases and narratives.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Explain concepts such as ecosystem, ecology, environmental pollution, ecological balance.
  • Discuss the facts that human beings are a part of the ecosystem, not above it, and everything living or non-living are related to each other in nature.
  • Describe the components of the ecosystem and its impact on human health.
  • Explain the effects of environment pollution (air, water and soil pollution, health-threatening chemicals, radiation and noise) on health and ways of protection.
  • Understand the importance of biodiversity and its relationship with environment and health.
  • Explain which information sources are used for environmental health risk assessment at community level.
  • Define universal ethical principles / values (justice and equality, integrity, honesty and reliability, responsibility, respect for differences, helpfulness and care, citizenship) in the historical context.
  • Outline the scope of international contracts related to universal ethical principles.
  • Explain the bioethical values and role of bioethics in understanding ecological problems
  • Explain the ethical values and moral responsibilities of the medical professional.
  • Recognize and distinguish an ethical issue from other issues and reason about ethical issues.
  • Explain the difference between medical ethics and bioethics, and differentiate bioethics, law, culture, and morals.
  • Explain the principles of bioethics and how to balance them in practice.
  • Justify ethical decisions when two or more values are in conflict.
Course Description This course will focus on the relationship between human health and environment, health-threatening pollution, chemicals, noise, the effect of radiation on human health and the development of health, professionalism, and ethical values. Introduction to the scope and methods of ethics and bioethics, basic concepts and application of medical professionalism, medical ethics, and medical law, ethical analysis and decision-making over selected cases and narratives, physician’s basic duties and obligations, the concepts of benefit and harm, confidentiality, consent, justice, physician well-being, altruism and empathy in physician-patient relationship, and the introduction to the historical evaluation of physician identities and roles.

 



Course Category

Core Courses
X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Management Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Related Preparation
1 Introduction to course Introduction to environmental issues (Hazards and risks) (development of environmental problems, social factors influencing environment, ecology, biodiversity, and sustainability) WHO/ Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
2 The components of the ecosystem and its impact on human health
3 Discussion on acute and chronic pollution Domestic and industrial pollution, pollution due to transportation, energy sources and agriculture Role of health personnel in pollution management WHO/ Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
4 Water: pollution and shortage, related problems Type of water resources What is clean water? Sea and river pollution Water borne diseases Water management in disasters Hazards of waste and related health problems Domestic waste Industrial waste Sewage systems WHO/ Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
5 excursion Outbreaks Which Had Changed the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7IhwP4yXn8
6 Air pollution, Athmosphere and climate change Global warming Greenhouse effect Role of ozone Results of climate change Urban pollution Diseases related to air pollution WHO/ Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
7 Environmental hazards related to soil and farming. Pesticides, fertilizer
8 Energy sources and environment WHO/ Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
9 Selected environmental problems in our district (excursion)
10 Presentations (major environmental problems/accidents)
11 Introduction to Human rights Difference between human rights and medical ethics Right to health Discussion Problem solving International declarations Bioethics Core Curriculum Section 2: Study Materials Ethics Education Programme Version 1.0 SHS/EST/EEP/2011/PI/3 UNESCO 2011 http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/ethics-education-programme/activities/education al-resources/
12 Introduction to Medical Professionalism - Development of the professional Identity: What are the attributes of a “good physician”? - Hidden curriculum Narrative ethics study (Flipped classroom) Film discussion: The Doctor, The Plague, The Motorcycle Diaries, etc. Breen, K.J., Cordner S.M., Thomson, C.J.H. & Plueckhahn, V.D. (2010). Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law, 2010, Cambridge University Press. Medical Professionalism – Module 1 (NextGenU.org.tr) Hafferty FW, Franks R. The hidden curriculum, ethics teaching, and the structure of medical education. Acad Med. 1994 Nov;69(11):861-71. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199411000-00001. PMID: 7945681.
13 What is ethics? What is bioethics? - Ethics in Action - Decision-making in ethics - Aristotle’s middle position theory approach and virtue ethics Case study (Flipped classroom) Beauchamp, T.L. & Childress, J.F. (2019). Principles of Biomedical Ethics (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. Dickenson, D., Huxtable, R. & Parker, M. (2010). The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511910098.
14 Introduction to Medical Ethics - Physician and patient roles: Benefit, Harm, Paternalism, Autonomy, and Informed Consent - Understanding risk and questions of disclosure Problem-based learning: Session 1 (Parallel session) Beauchamp, T.L. & Childress, J.F. (2019). Principles of Biomedical Ethics (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. Dickenson, D., Huxtable, R. & Parker, M. (2010). The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511910098.
15 Introduction to Medical Ethics - Duties and obligations of the clinician, including an introduction to patient rights - Physician-patient relationship: The dual roles of physician and investigator and confidentiality - Goals of medicine Problem-based learning: Session 2 (Parallel session) Beauchamp, T.L. & Childress, J.F. (2019). Principles of Biomedical Ethics (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. Huxtable, R. & Meulen, R.T. (2015). The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics (1st ed.). Routledge. Dickenson, D., Huxtable, R. & Parker, M. (2010). The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511910098.
16 Introduction to Medical Professionalism - Development of the professional Identity: Historical Context Artwork panorama: Digital museum (Flipped classroom) Breen, K.J., Cordner S.M., Thomson, C.J.H. & Plueckhahn, V.D. (2010). Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law, 2010, Cambridge University Press. Medical Professionalism – Module 1 (NextGenU.org.tr) Dolan, D. The Medical Profession Through History. Perspectives in Medical Humanities, Supplement 1 (August 2021). University of California, Medical Humanities Press. DOI: 10.34947/M7X596
17 Course feedback Presentation (major environmental problems/accidents
18 Final exam (the books related to medical humanities (medicine, literature, arts, sociology/antropology)

 

Course Notes/Textbooks
  1. Bioethics Core Curriculum Section 2: Study Materials Ethics Education Programme Version 1.0  SHS/EST/EEP/2011/PI/3 UNESCO 2011 http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/ethics-education-programme/activities/educational-resources/

 

  1. Planetary Health Alliance website

https://planetaryhealthalliance.org/

https://planetaryhealthalliance.org/education

https://planetaryhealthalliance.org/bibliography

https://www.planetaryhealthalliance.org/clinicians-for-planetary-health

  1. Climate for Health website

https://climateforhealth.org/resources/

  1. Planetary health: protecting global health on a rapidly changing planet | Dr Sam Myers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD5vK1dBQys&feature=youtu.be

  1. Myers. Planetary health: protecting human health on a rapidly changing planet, Lancet, 2017.

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(17)32846-5.pdf

  1. Challenges and opportunities in planetary health for primary care providers, Lancet 2018.

https://cutt.ly/cw7PBfv

  1. Planetary Health Workshop Topics and Resources

https://files.visura.co/users/12837/9f6e5f1d2add33fc55b877ee6e274925.pdf

  1. WONCA Planetary Health Declaration

https://cutt.ly/Kw7Sj4H

  1. Myers. Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health

http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/181%20Health%20and%20Environment.pdf

  1. Let’s Talk Health & Climate- Communication Guidance for Health Professionals

https://climateforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/3_letstalk_health_and_climate.pdf

  1. McMichael, et al. Climate change and human health: present and future risks, Lancet, 2006. https://cutt.ly/qw7DhYq
  2. Halk Sağlığı Uzmanları Derneği (HASUDER) Türkiye Sağlık Raporu 2014. Ertem M, Çan G (Eds) HASUDER Yayın No :2014-8.
  3. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/ethics-education-programme/activities/educational-resources/
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7IhwP4yXn8
  5. International classification of impairments, disabilities and handicaps: a manual of classification relating to the consequences of disease. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1980 http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/disability/en/
  6. State Institute of Statistics, Prime Ministry: Turkish Disability Survey 2002. State Institute of Statistics, Printing Division - Ankara, 2009.
  7. Breen, K.J., Cordner S.M., Thomson, C.J.H. & Plueckhahn, V.D. (2010). Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law, 2010, Cambridge University Press.
  8. Medical Professionalism – Module 1 (NextGenU.org.tr)
  9. Hafferty FW, Franks R. The hidden curriculum, ethics teaching, and the structure of medical education. Acad Med. 1994 Nov;69(11):861-71. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199411000-00001. PMID: 7945681.
  10. Dickenson, D., Huxtable, R. & Parker, M. (2010). The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511910098.
  11. Huxtable, R. & Meulen, R.T. (2015). The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics (1st ed.). Routledge.
  12. Breen, K.J., Cordner S.M., Thomson, C.J.H. & Plueckhahn, V.D. (2010). Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law, 2010, Cambridge University Press.
  13. Dolan, D. The Medical Profession Through History. Perspectives in Medical      Humanities, Supplement 1 (August 2021). University of California, Medical Humanities Press. DOI: 10.34947/M7X596
  14. Breen, K.J., Cordner S.M., Thomson, C.J.H. & Plueckhahn, V.D. (2010). Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law, 2010, Cambridge University Press.
  15. Medical Professionalism – Module 2 (NextGenU.org.tr)
  16. McCammon, Susan D. & Brody, Howard (2012). How Virtue Ethics Informs Medical Professionalism. HEC Forum 24 (4):257-272.
Suggested Readings/Materials

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
1
30
Presentation / Jury
1
30
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
Final Exam
1
40
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
2
60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
1
40
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Theoretical Course Hours
(Including exam week: 18 x total hours)
18
2
36
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: '.18.' x total hours)
18
0
Study Hours Out of Class
14
2
28
Field Work
0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
0
Portfolio
0
Homework / Assignments
2
5
10
Presentation / Jury
1
8
8
Project
0
Seminar / Workshop
0
Oral Exam
0
Midterms
0
Final Exam
1
8
8
    Total
90

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1

Knowledge for Practice: Uses knowledge in biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, social and behavioral sciences for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of medical problems.

2

Information Management and Research: Uses the information generated through research and accessed from different sources in evidence-based patient management processes

3

Patient management: Provides patient-centered, holistic, safe, reliable and evidence-based health care for common health problems in the community, prioritizing health protection and improvement*.

4

Patient and employee safety: Provides health services by considering the health and safety of patients and employees.

5

Protection and promotion of health: Prioritizes protecting and improving the health of individuals and society in the provision of health services under usual/unusual situations. Performs clinical and public health practices in a holistic and competent manner

X
6

Adherence to ethical principles: Fulfills the duties and obligations within the framework of ethical principles and, rights and legal responsibilities required by the profession.

X
7

Professional competence: Provides a high-quality healthcare service that prioritizes patient safety. While applying the profession, he/she knows his/her limits, evaluates his/her own performance, determines the aspects that need to be developed and improves them within a plan

X
8

Professional virtues: Avoid behaviors that will undermine the public's trust in medicine. S/he approaches her/his patients with compassion and care without discrimination, and puts their welfare ahead of her/his own interests

X
9

A healthy physician- a healthy society: Gives importance to his/her personal health, safety and appearance, sets an example for his/her colleagues and society by taking the necessary precautions.

10

Planetary health and healthy lifestyles: Considering the effects of the resources offered by our planet on individual and public health, he/she accepts promoting healthy lifestyles and eliminating the factors that negatively affect health his/her duty.

X
11

Protecting and improving health as a social responsibility: Accepts protection and improvement of public health as a social responsibility, identifies the primary health problems of the society served and produces solutions.

X
12

Health policies: Evaluates the impact of health policies on the health indicators of individuals and society, and advocates increasing the quality of health services.

13

Change management: Systematically identifies and manages the issues/processes and the necessary resources that require change in order to provide quality, safe and cost-effective health care.

14

Personal qualifications: Provides evidence exerting that he/she is equipped enough to lead changes to make healthcare more qualified, safe and cost-effective

15

Communication skills: Uses verbal and non-verbal communication effectively. Communicates with patients in a way that makes them feel understood, with active listening behaviors (eye contact, affirmation, summarizing, etc.)

X
16

Communication with patients and their relatives: Establishes supportive relationships with patients and their families that contribute positively to the treatment process

17

Communication for qualified and safe health care: Communicates with patients, their relatives, health workers, other professional groups, institutions and organizations in a clear, understandable and professional manner that will minimize patient safety risks and increase the quality of health care. Considers and protects patient privacy and data security in all communications.

18

Explains the place and importance of scientific research and evidence in providing qualified and safe health care. Analyzes the health problems in the society s/he serves with scientific methods. Reaches information to access evidence. Uses the information analyzed and the evidence accessed from the literature to provide more qualified and safer health care

19

Reflection: Using reflective approaches, he/she questions his/her professional performance, identifies areas that require improvement, and develops his/her professional knowledge and skills by identifying learning needs.

20

Stress management: Explains and applies strategies for coping with stress and preventing burnout

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 


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