“PATIENT RIGHTS” AND “INFORMED CONSENT” IN UNIVERSITY CURRICULA AT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Abstract

Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) is the responsibility of the entity the Republic Srpska (RS), ten counties in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FB&H) and Brčko District (BD). Higher education in Bosnia and Herzegovina is regulated by the Framework Law on Higher
Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The rights of patients are determined by the Law on Rights, Obligations and Responsibilities of Patients, which determines the rights, obligations and responsibilities of patients in health care, rules of those entitlements, the protection and improvement of those rights, as well as other issues related to rights, obligations and responsibilities of patients. Informed consent, as one of patients' rights, is a free manifestation of the patient's will, i.e. his consent to the implementation of the proposed medical measure or participation in research,
and for its validity the patient's competence, adequacy of information and voluntariness are required. The aim of this paper is to review available curricula and programs on the websites of organizational units at public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to see how much the concepts of "patient rights" and "informed consent" are studied at public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.