Distance Diplomas in Bioethics

Methodological feature: remote activity.

Start: March 2 | 6 weeks.

Duration in hours: 40 h 

Official Certificate – Digital Format.

Syllabus

Legal Issues:

• 1 Drive: Law and bioethics. The Argentine legal system. The human person in our legislation. International treaties and the principle of conventionality control. Legal capacity and competence. New legal framework. Children, adolescents, and pre-adolescents and their rights. Supreme Court rulings on this topic.
• 2 Drive: The right to life in international law. Refusal of treatment. Therapeutic obstinacy and “death with dignity.” Case analysis.
• 3 Drive: The concept of dignity and the abortion debate. Prenatal life. Patients' rights. Health information and informed consent. The medical record. Case analysis. Nature, technology, and law: artificial reproduction, post-mortem fertilization, and surrogacy.

Ethical and Anthropological Issues:

• 1 Drive: The birth of bioethics and its early developments. Definition. Bioethics as a science. Relationship with other sciences. Practical application.
• 2 Drive: The dignity of the human person. Consequences of the value of the person. Personalist anthropology. Other anthropological perspectives. Personalist bioethics. Practical application.
• 3 Drive: Principlism. Casuistry. Utilitarianism. Contractualism. Strengths and weaknesses of these schools of thought. Practical application.

Methodological feature: remote activity.

Start: April 20 | 6 weeks.

Duration in hours: 40 h.

Official Certificate – Digital Format.

Advisory Committee:

•  Dr. Pablo Pratesi – Head of the Critical Care Unit HUA.
•  Dr. Sebastián Cosenza – Deputy Head of the Critical Care Unit HUA.

Syllabus

1. Decision-making in critical situations: bioethical criteria. Case study.
2. Objective and subjective aspects to be assessed. Case study.
3. Autonomy. Quality of life. Case study.
4. Therapeutic dilemmas: neither therapeutic obstinacy nor therapeutic abandonment.
5. If it is futile, why prescribe it?
6. In the case of a critically ill patient, why not suspend treatments?
7. Prolonging the agony. Therapies burdensome for the patient.
8. Advance directives.
9. Palliative sedation and terminal sedation.
10. Treatment discontinuation. Withdrawal of mechanical ventilation

Start: June 8 | 4 weeks

Duration in hours: 30 h

Official Certificate – Digital Format

Synchronous classes via Zoom platform:

Agenda:

• Transhumanism.

• Digital health. Designing solutions based on ethical validation criteria, from research to implementation. Auditing compliance with Ethics Committee resolutions when data-driven technologies are involved.

• Artificial intelligence in healthcare.

• Innovation and the moral dilemma of its financing.

• Development of personalized and precision medicine.

• Automated algorithms in healthcare.

• Informed consent in digital technologies.

• Secondary use of the data.

Teachers:

• Mg. María Isabel Iñigo Petralanda (lawyer, postgraduate law professor at the UA and Master in Bioethics from the UCA).

Methodological feature: remote activity.

Start: July 6 | 6 weeks.

Duration in hours: 40 h

Official Certificate – Digital Format.

Objectives of the activity and program:

1. General considerations.
   

• Introduction to the principles of research ethics.

• Nuremberg Code, Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report, Guidelines of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Science (CIOMS) and other relevant documents.

• Aspects that make scientific research ethical.

2. Principle of respect for people.
   

• Autonomy.

• Research in particularly vulnerable populations.

• Informed consent.

3. Principles of beneficence and justice.
   

• Risks and benefits of research.

• Distributive and reciprocal justice.

• Confidentiality, privacy.

4. Use of embryonic cell lines for research.

• Ethical analysis of some interventions on the human embryo.

Agenda:

• Introduction to the principles of research ethics.
• Nuremberg Code, Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report, Guidelines of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences.
• Principle of respect for people.
• Autonomy. Vulnerability. Research in vulnerable populations. Informed consent.
• Risks and benefits of research.
• Distributive and reciprocal justice.
• Confidentiality, privacy.
• Use of embryonic cell lines for research.

Methodological feature: remote activity.

Start: August 24 | 7 weeks.

Duration in hours: 40 h.

Official Certificate – Digital Format.

Advisory Committee:

•  Dr. Manuel Rocca Rivarola – director of the maternal and child health department HUA.
•  Dr. Gabriel Musante – Associate Director of the HUA Maternal and Child Department and Head of the Neonatology Service.
•  Dr. Ernesto Beruti – Head of the obstetrics service HUA.

Objectives of the activity:

Those who care for patients in the early stages of life are aware that they hold a person's future in their hands. Every day they must make important clinical decisions: What to do with children born with malformations, with those who have disabilities? Can survival be the sole and decisive criterion? Is it necessary to provide children with every possible treatment? Are there limitations to therapeutic efforts in the early stages of life? How to resolve conflicts of interest?

Throughout this course we will provide the tools to solve these dilemmas.

Agenda:

• The scope of the newborn's autonomy. Parental involvement in decision-making.
• Neonatal euthanasia and the ethical distinction between ending the life of the child and letting him die.
• The futility of the treatment.
• The best interests of the child. The role of quality of life.
• Therapeutic proportionality in early life. Proportional and disproportionate treatments. Application in children with disabilities.
• Decisions in the face of uncertain neonatal viability. Treatment strategies. The role of prudence.

Methodological feature: remote activity.

Start: October 19 | 6 weeks.

Duration in hours: 40 h.

Official Certificate – Digital Format.

Agenda:

I) Ethics in health institutions

• The Hospital as an ethical organization.
• Institutional Bioethics: Problems and Practices in Healthcare Organizations.
• Patient rights - applicable legislation.
• Conflict and dilemmas in the healthcare sector - Conflicts of interest. Committees and healthcare mediation.
• Ethics Committees: Background - Types - Composition - Functions - Applicable Legislation.
• Case presentation protocol.
• Method of ethical deliberation.
• Methodology for solving bioethical problems.

II) Special Part

• Ethics and assistance committees.
• Research ethics committee.
• Professional and institutional ethics committee (institutional principles/institutional conscientious objection).

The Diplomas in Bioethics have 2 different orientations:

TO THE ASSISTANCE TASKS:

• Module – Anthropological and legal tools 
• Module – Bioethics at the end of life 
• Module – Perinatal bioethical issues

TO THE ADVISORY FUNCTION:

• Module – Anthropological and legal tools 
• Module – Bioethics in Research 
• Module – Organization of Bioethics Committees 

You can also obtain the diploma by passing:

• Module 1 – Anthropological and legal tools.
• Two different modules to choose from.

IMPORTANT: Those participants who have completed the three modules of an orientation, in this or previous editions, will be eligible to opt for the certification of the Diploma in Bioethics.

Diploma courses are not considered degrees but rather courses and therefore do not issue titles but certificates (DNGU. DOCUS N°3. Inc.12).

Organized by: Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Universidad Austral.

Teachers Council:

• Dr. Pilar de Antueno: Certified physician in palliative care. Master's degree in bioethics from the Catholic University of Argentina. Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of Hospital Austral.
• Father Gustavo Páez: Master in Bioethics – University of Navarra – Spain.
• Dr. Corina Busso: Master's degree in Clinical and Pharmacological Research. Former President of the Institutional Evaluation Committee, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences. Universidad Austral.
• Dr. Guadalupe Grimaux: Clinical physician. Master's degree in Bioethics from the University of Murcia. Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the Hospital Austral.
• Dr. Gloria Sanchez Zinny: Gynecological physician specializing in gynecological and reproductive endocrinology. Former member of the Bioethics Department of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the Universidad AustralFormer researcher at the Institute of Bioethics of the Catholic University of Argentina.
• Dr. Nelly Espiño: Lawyer. PhD in Bioethics. Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of Hospital Austral.
• Ms. Milagros Moreno D'Anna: Pediatrician. Allergy specialist. Master's degree in Bioethics from the University of Murcia.
• Dr. Pilar López Gabeiras: Medical specialist in psychiatry.
• Dr. Elena Postigo SolanaPhilosopher. PhD in Bioethics from the Sacred Heart University of Milan. Director of the Institute of Bioethics, Francesco di Vittoria University. Jerome-Lejeune Foundation.
• Sagrario Crespo Garrido, Esq.: Licensed in Pharmacy. Professor of Bioethics. Francisco de Vitoria University. Jerome-Lejeune Foundation
• Ms. Agustina Toscani: Lawyer. Master in Bioethics from the Catholic University of Argentina.

• Official Certificate and Digital Format

Diploma courses are not considered degrees but rather courses and therefore do not issue titles but certificates (DNGU. DOCUS N°3. Inc.12).

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