The Role of Medical Higher Education in Promoting Nondiscrimination - The Sibiu Experience
Journal Title: Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics - Year 2019, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The modern concept of social responsibility pertaining to the medical faculties requires a reassessment of the academic training of future health professionals and a restructuring of the university curriculum in accordance with the need to develop not only their professional but also the transversal competencies. In this context, the issue of discrimination must be addressed by medical higher education - both as regards to the emergence of this phenomenon within society, as a whole, as well as in the health care system, in particular. The paper presents the concrete steps taken in this respect by the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu’s (LBUS) Faculty of Medicine, starting with the 2014-2015 academic year, within the project entitled "Medical Higher Education Oriented to Non-Discriminatory Treatment of Patients" POSDRU ID/156/1.2/G/142145. These included the elaboration of the academic textbook "Non-Discrimination in the Health System", the implementation of the mandatory university course with the same title, in the following specializations: Medicine, Dentistry and General Medical Assistance, the development of a Documentation and Research Center in the field of ethics and non-discrimination, the organization of two thematic seminars addressed to teachers, the arranging of an intensive ethics and medical deontology workshop dedicated to non-discrimination in the health system, attended by 50 medical students, the dissemination of information on other scientific events - within the sustainability of the project. Besides the necessary involvement of the academic teaching staff, the paper also points to the decisive role of the students’ active participation in these activities, in order to facilitate the acquisition of theoretical notions and their implementation in their direct relationship with the patient.
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Morar Silviu
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