International Medical Cooperation Committee (IFMSA-Denmark), Aarhus, Denmark
August 17th to 23rd 2003
Sunday the 17th of August 2003: Arrival and check-in at the conference facilities. Reception in the afternoon.Monday the 18th of August 2003: "Introduction to Medical Ethics" This day is an introduction to the basic concepts in medical ethics, such as autonomy and paternalism. The participants will be taught a number of tools to use in the debates the following days and more generally in their later activities as doctors. Tuesday the 19th of August 2003: "Ethical Declarations in Medicine" Here the starting point is the declarations concerning medical ethics that have been made in the last many years. On the basis of for example the Helsinki Declaration, we will study the ethical problems in forced treatment, screening, doctor-patient confidentiality etc. Wednesday the 20th of August 2003: "Terminal Care" Euthanasia has been raging in the public debate recently, and the topic is directly relevant to the future doctors. Is there any real difference between passively and actively causing a patients death? Who takes the very final desicion? The idea of hospices will be introduced, and the doctor's attitudes towards the use of alternative treatments such as healings and special diets will be taken up. Thursday the 21st of August 2003: "Ethics in Research and Genetics" We will start the day off by examining some of the rules made by scientific ethics committees, regarding which experiments are allowed to be carried out. Placebo, informed consent, and ownership rights to the results are some things that will be discussed. The ethical aspects of cloning, genetic counselling and patenting of genes are other topics apt to set the discussions rolling. Friday the 22nd of August 2003: "Minorities in the Health Care System" What do you do, if the person coming into the emergency room does not want to be treated by you, if you are of a certain religion, gender, race or sexual observation? What do you do, if your colleague is the target of the discrimination, and you are called in to help the patient that refused treatment by your colleague? And the other way around - what do you say to people wanting treatments, that are not medically founded, such as circumsicions? These and other problems will be the program for this day. Saturday the 23rd of August 2003: Departure from the conference.
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