2024

Ethics and Pharmaceutical Deontology

Name: Ethics and Pharmaceutical Deontology
Code: FIL13783I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

With this UC, the student must recognize the epistemological scope and the meaning of Ethics, the great ethical criteria for human action, and understand the deontology and relate it to the pharmaceutical activity, and to know the Pharmaceutical Code of Ethics.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. To delimit the epistemological field of Ethics
2. To recognize the meaning of Ethics in decision making
3. To identify the great ethical criteria of all human actions
4. To use the concepts of individual, person and community, and of ethical values and principles with philosophical accuracy
5. To relate the scientific and technical autonomy of pharmacists to their ethical autonomy
6. To place the professional responsibility of pharmacists in the context of problematizing human freedom
7. To understand Deontology as a scope of Ethics
8. To realize the meaning of Deontology
9. To link Deontology and pharmaceutical activity
10. To confront deontological codes
11. To analyze the Deontological Code of Pharmacists
12. To know Good Practices applied to the several domains of pharmaceutical activity (community pharmacy, hospital, industry, distribution, etc.), framing them in the pharmaceutical deontology.

Contents

I. ETHICS AS PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
II. JUSTIFICATION OF ETHICS IN THE TRAINING OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
III. ETHICAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
IV. DEONTOLOGY – BASIC CONCEPTS AND FUNDAMENTAL DISTINCTIONS
V. PHARMACEUTICAL DEONTOLOGICAL CODE
VI. GOOD PRACTICES APLIED TO THE DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL ACTIVITY.

Teaching Methods

Main methods:
a) Exposure (introducing the curricular unit’s themes and problems);
b) Hermeneutics of texts;
c) Discussion and argumentation;
d) Written tests of continuous assessment and / or exam:
- Two continuous evaluation tests, each of which has a weight of 50% in the average and final classification;
- Alternatively, there will be an exam, either written only, or supplemented by an oral exam in case the result of the exam is between 8 and 10, with the classification obtained by written and oral arithmetic mean.