Objectives of general skills

• Demonstrate interpersonal skills developed within a medical context
• Understand the basic rules of French (grammar, punctuation, connectors, etc.)
• Use a rich vocabulary accurately linking concepts and words, and understand the prefixes and suffixes used in the medical field
• Adapt lexical and syntactic choices in communication register (everyday language, medical language or scientific terminology)
• Summarise, explain, and argue
• Listen and empathise
• Work in a team
• Develop reasoning skills
• Use a hypothesis in inductive, deductive or abductive reasoning
• Develop critical thinking, test and monitor conclusions understanding the domain of validity, and explore alternative hypotheses
• Manage doubt and uncertainty
• Manage resources
• Manage time
• Prioritise
• Understand the organisation of the health system and its social dimension
• Integrate an economic dimension in clinical reasoning
• Promote health
• Understand a global approach to health incorporating prevention and screening
• Identify community health problems in the various teachings
• Understand the fundamentals of health education
• Manage their studies
• Have developed an interest for medicine
• Locate scientific information efficiently
• Read, interpret, and critique a scientific article
• Compare different sources of information
• Be a responsible practitioner
• Base reasoning on the data taken from scientific literature (evidence-based-medicine)
• Integrate a human dimension in their approach to the patient
• Respect the diversity of gender, culture and opinion
• Integrate an ethical dimension in their reasoning
• Be loyal to the facts, to the team, to intellectual property, confidentiality, etc.

UE's Learning outcomes

At the end of the instruction, the students will be able to define the different ethical and philosophical fields mobilized to understand and solve the health problems. They will analyze cases and new situations with reference to ethical concepts. They will be able to differentiate the concepts of morality, ethics, deontology and law in order to understand the differences and commonalities between them. They will have a critical and constructive vision of ethics and deontology.  

UE Content

Definitions used in meta-ethics and applied ethics. References to textbooks and official documents will be presented. Case studies will illustrate theory. Plus: History of bioethics,  debates regarding major themes.  

Prior experience

No pre, nor co-requisite

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral Examination