APG5729 Clinical ethics
Faculty of Arts
APG5729 Clinical ethics is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
- Workload
- 288 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before APG5729
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After APG5729
No unit lists APG5729 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibition: APG4729, APG4714, APR5729 also
Overview
This unit focuses initially on three ethical principles used to justify decisions in patient care: autonomy, beneficence, and justice. These principles are then applied to a variety of ethical issues in health care practice, such as the allocation of health care resources, the justifiability of paternalistic interventions, breaches of confidentiality, assisted reproductive technologies, surrogate motherhood, and euthanasia. The role of health professionals is also considered, in relation to issues in family care giving, and conscientious refusals to treat patients.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for APG5729.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Bring a rigorous framework of principles of health care ethics to the analysis and evaluation of certain ethical issues in patient care
- 2
Think critically about the key concepts involved in those principles
- 3
Make informed judgements about the ethics of certain ways of acting in ethically sensitive areas of patient care, and be able to defend those judgements on the basis of argument.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Anton Allen
- Chief Examiners
- Associate Professor Justin Oakley
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5729?
APG5729 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is APG5729 offered?
APG5729 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
How much work is APG5729?
The handbook expects about 288 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.