APG5733 Health care ethics
Faculty of Arts
APG5733 Health care ethics is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for APG5733. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before APG5733
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After APG5733
No unit lists APG5733 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibition: APG4714 also
Overview
This unit aims to develop students' critical and analytical understanding of key ethical issues in patient care. The unit focuses initially on three main ethical principles, embodying the concepts of autonomy, beneficence, and justice. These principles are used to analyse and discuss a variety of broad ethical issues which arise in patient care, such as the allocation of health care resources, the justifiability of paternalism, breaches of patient confidentiality, in vitro fertilisation, and euthanasia. There is also some discussion of the role of health professionals, in relation to conscientious refusals to treat patients, and issues in family care giving.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for APG5733.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Use a rigorous framework of principles of health care ethics to analyse and evaluate 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 patient care practices, and use argument to defend those judgements.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 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
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Catherine Mills
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Catherine Mills
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5733?
APG5733 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is APG5733 offered?
APG5733 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
How much work is APG5733?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Arts
- Organisational unit
- Monash Bioethics Centre
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 1
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2020