3 ECTS credits
75 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 6014907FNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
Department
Supporting clinical sciences
Educational team
Decaan GF (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
14 contact hours Lecture
18 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Content

 




























































Programme Unit 9

Credits

Study Time

Lectures

Practicum

Self Study

Faculty

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Disasters

 

3

75

14

14

 

47

K Koenig

D O’Mathuna

I Hubloue

1. General introduction to legal, ethical and moral aspects of disaster medicine

 

 

5

4

12

K. Koenig

D. O’Mathuna

2. International legal aspects of disaster medicine

 

 

3

2

8

I. Hubloue

3. Ethical aspects of disaster medicine

 

 

3

4

20

K. Koenig

4. Moral aspects of disaster medicine

 

 

3

4

7

D. O’Mathuna
Course material
Digital course material (Required) : The website of the master (www.dismedmaster.com) provides the students with the core content and “need to read” material. Exercises, executed individually or in group, at the website of the master or during the live-in course., www.dismedmaster.com
Additional info
The website of the master (www.dismedmaster.com) provides the students with the core content and “need to read” material. Exercises, executed individually or in group, at the website of the master or during the live-in course.
Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

Objectives




  1. Understand the difference between the legal (based on public consensus, or imposed by the authorities), the moral (based on religious rules deduced from instructions given by a transcendent authority), and the ethical approach (based on the individual perception of the value of the ethical issues at stake), to decision making in disaster situations.


  2. Explain international legal and regulatory issues related to disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies.


  3. Analyse concrete examples of ethical questions through general ethical reasoning, based on the weight of the values to be preserved in the decision making process.


  4. Analyse concrete examples of ethical questions through the application of the moral rules, imposed by different religions.


Study material

The website of the master (www.dismedmaster.com) provides the students with the core content and “need to read” material, and additional content in a library. Exercises, executed individually or in group, at the website of the master or during the live-in course.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
LEC Practical Assignment determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Final examination with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

    Note: final examination at the website of the master.

Within the LEC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Test with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

    Note: Test at the end of the module

Additional info regarding evaluation

Test at the end of the module, exercises and final examination at the website of the master.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This course offer isn't part of a fixed set of graduation requirements. Hence, it is a free elective.