Početak bioetičke edukacije na Medicinskom fakultetu u Rijeci

Abstract

The presentation consists of three parts. The first speaks about the initial interdisciplinary efforts of introducing ethics into the education of medical students on Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka and the first ethics elective course "The Hippocratic Oath Today," with which, in the academic year 1991-1992, began medical-ethics and bioethics education on Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka. The second part speaks about how the Department of Social Sciences realised collaboration with international institutes, centres and departments of medical eth-ics and bioethics and introduced courses in Medical Ethics, Introduction to Bioethics and Ethics of Nursing. The constituent part of this section is the presentation and display of the publications of the Department that have resulted with an aim to assist students in the implementation of ethics courses at this School. The third part presents the efforts and results achieved in research of contents, objectives and ways of teaching and preparing medical-ethics and bioethics courses for medical students and students of other studies that are educated on Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka.