SUMMER MINI-COURSES IN GERMANY
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Language: English
Participants: Medical students from Alpert Medical School and PLME junior and senior undergraduates
Number of students: up to 15
Tuition: No charge to Brown students
Travel Expenses: Students responsible for all travel expenses to/from and within Germany.
I. Growing Old—The medical perspective of aging
Rostock University, June 9–20, 2008
 
Room and Food: Students will room with professors or students from Rostock. Students responsible for food.
Extracurricular: Sailing and swimming available on the beautiful Baltic coast.
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II. Comparative Medical Ethics
Tuebingen University, June 23–July 4, 2008
Course coordination:
Georg Marckmann, MD, MPH, Vice Director of the Institute of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tuebingen; Thomas Bledsoe, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, RIH, Associate Director of Alpert Medical School’s Scholarly Concentration in Medical Ethics.
Room and Food: Tuebingen books rooms in the youth hostel (including breakfast) and gives a stipend for food which can be used in the commissary or elsewhere.
Extracurricular: Students can make a trip to Munich and Castle Neuschwanstein at their own expense.
Course Description:
The goal of this intensive two-week seminar is to bring pre-medical and medical students from Brown and Tuebingen together to discuss ethical issues of medical practice in a comparative perspective. The seminar will consist of small group discussions and study periods, and will include the students preparing short presentations for the group sessions. By comparing different ethical standards and positions from the US, Germany, and selected other countries, the students will not only receive a basic training in medical ethics but also get a sense for the cultural relativity of moral reasoning, the co-existence of alternative and competing ethical frameworks, calibrated to different civilizational traditions and socio-political conditions. The participants will be offered clinical cases to discuss the implications of different ethical positions. The seminar will be highly interactive to induce a stimulating exchange of ideas and arguments between the medical students from the US and Germany.
The seminar covers the following topic areas under a comparative perspective:
Organization of health-care systems
- Three prototypical systems:
- Market driven system: US health system
- Social security system: Germany
- Tax financed state system: United Kingdom
- Distributive justice in health care, comparison of the three countries US, Germany and UK
Medical decision making and the physician-patient relationship
- Basic ethical principles of medical decision making (respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, justice)
- Models of the physician-patient relationship
- Meaning, justification and elements of informed consent
- Standards for surrogate decision making
End-of-life decision making and euthanasia
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