COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION


Course Name
Human Society Planet IV
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
HSP 202
Spring
2
2
3
4
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Required
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives In this course, it is aimed that students evaluate the lifestyle medical practices in the context of socially preventable chronic diseases at individual level, develop their communication skills, provide access to information on legal and health law issues and apply decision making on bioethics.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • 1. Apply the practices of seeing details and developing empathy through different works of art.
  • 2. Define the expectations of individuals from health care workers and health care system.
  • 3. Receive and record information about the health of individuals using structured forms.
  • 4. Evaluate the economic, social and physical factors affecting lifestyle behavior by taking history about lifestyle behaviors, and making measurements.
  • 5. List and prioritize physical, biological, ergonomic, social and psychological risks in the living area taking into consideration the characteristics of individuals.
  • 6. Communicate in written and oral format effectively.
  • 7. Define the basic concepts of intercultural communication.
  • 8. Define the concept of intercultural communication competence and its components
  • 9. Explain intercultural differentiation and organizational behavior features
  • 10. Evaluate herself/himself and peers in terms of problem-solving and communication skills, strengths and weaknesses, and make plans to develop.
  • 11. Define the basic concepts of health law.
  • 12. Define the relationship between professional principles and values and basic ethical values.
  • 13. Provide reasonable justifications within basic ethical principles framework to make ethical decisions.
  • 14. Apply ethical decision-making steps in bioethical subjects.
  • 15. Evaluate the ethical dimension of patient rights.
  • 16. Discuss the ethical dimension of scientific research.
Course Description In this course; the expectations of the community from the health care professionals and the health system, as well as the visual thinking, risk assessment and planning, communication skills, work as a team and ethical decision-making steps will be addressed.
Related Sustainable Development Goals

 



Course Category

Core Courses
X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Introduction to the course Visual Thinking
2 Introduction to ethics Universal ethical and legal principles that form the basis of the medical profession with examples Bioethics Core Curriculum Section 2: Study Materials Ethics Education Programme Version 1.0 SHS/EST/EEP/2011/PI/3 UNESCO 2011
3 Ethical decision making, problem solving Bioethics Biogenetics and ethics UNESCO. Bioethics Core Curriculum
4 Patient rights UNESCO. Bioethics Core Curriculum
5 End of life and ethical issues of death. Transplantation Ethical issues of reproductive health Research and ethics Publications and ethics UNESCO. Bioethics Core Curriculum
6 Healthcare law
7 Legal responsibilities of medical profession Paul Hunt (2016). “Interpreting the International Right to Health in a Human Rights-Based Approach to Health”, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 18, No. 2, Special Section: Universal Health Coverage and Human Rights, pp.109-130. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/healhumarigh.18.2.109 Aruna Kumar Malik (2010). “Issues Of Justiciability And Inequality: Rethinking of Human Rights with Special Reference to Right to Health”, The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 71, No. 4 , pp. 1089- 1102. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42748939 Tony Evans(2002).”A Human Right to Health?”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2, Global Health and Governance: HIV/AIDS, pp. 197-215. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3993496
8 Responsibilities of Government Responsibilities of Healthcare Workers John D. J. Havard (1989) “The Responsibility Of The Doctor”. BMJ: British Medical Journal, Vol. 299, No. 6697, pp. 503-508. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29705090 J.D.Finch (1987). “Legal Obligations and Responsibilities of the Medical Practitioner”, BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia, Volume 59, Issue 7, July 1987, Pages 870–876. https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/59.7.870 Annis Gillie (1964). ”Ethical and Legal Obligations of the Medical Profession”. Br Med J., 2(5401): 113–115. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1815942/ Banu Karakus Yilmaz , Hatice Topcu , Yahya Ayhan Acar (2017). “Assessment of Legal Obligations of Physicians from Emergency Physician Perspective”. The Medical Bulletin of Sisli Etfal Hospital, V: 51(2), pp.142-8. DOI: 10.5350/SEMB.20170403115602.
9 Family Health Care Center Visits How to use guideliness Clinical Practice Guideline for Diagnosis, Treatment and Follow-up of Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications - THE SOCIETY of ENDOCRINOLOGY and METABOLISM of TURKEY (SEMT) 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for themanagement of arterial hypertension-The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Society of Hypertension (ESH)
10 Review of the Semester  
11 Intercultural competencies
12 Intercultural competencies
13 Case Studies
14 Commemoration of Ataturk, Youth and Sports Day
15 Group Work Case Studies
16 Intercultural competencies L. A. Samovar, R. E. Porter, E. R. McDaniel (2009). Intercultural Communication A Reader 12th ed. Boston, Mass.: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
17 Intercultural competencies Everett M. Rogers, Thomas M. Steinfatt (1999) Intercultural Communication, IL: Waveland Press Deardorff, D. K. (2006). Identification and assessment of intercultural competence as a student outcome of internationalization. Journal of studies in international education, 10(3), pp. 241-266.
18 Review of the Semester  
Course Notes/Textbooks
  1. ELMO/ The Lifestyle Medicine course/Nutrition
  2. http://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#19

  3. AFMC Primer on Population Health. 2017 (2nd edition) The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, Ottava,  p322-34
  4. CDC/ Public health 101 series/ Introduction to Public Health Surveillance
  5. https://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/surveillance.html

    4-    CDC/ Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Third Edition, An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics /Chain of infection, epidemic disease occurence

    https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section10.html

  6. Halk Sağlığı Uzmanları Derneği (HASUDER) Türkiye Sağlık Raporu 2014. Ertem M, Çan G (Eds) HASUDER Yayın No :2014-8
  7. CDC/ Cancer screening
  8.  
  9. Bioethics Core Curriculum Section 2: Study Materials Ethics Education Programme Version 1.0  SHS/EST/EEP/2011/PI/3 UNESCO 2011
  10. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/ethics-education-programme/activities/educational-resources/

    7- CDC/Healthy schools

    https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/index.htm
Suggested Readings/Materials
  1. Greenberg, Medical Epidemiology : Population health and Effective Health Care, Appleton and Lange, 2015

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
3
25
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
1
10
Midterm
2
30
Final Exam
1
35
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
65
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
35
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours
(Including exam week: 18 x total hours)
18
2
36
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: 18 x total hours)
18
2
Study Hours Out of Class
0
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
3
10
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
1
6
Midterms
2
10
Final Exams
1
10
    Total
138

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1

Explain the normal structure and functions of the human body at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and system levels, associate them with suggestions, practices and clinical situations (nutrition, exercise, vaccination, mental health, etc.); to protect and improve the health of individuals.

X
2

Describe the mechanisms of diseases at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and system levels and make evidence-based decisions by associating them with disease findings, diagnosis and treatment approaches.

3

Consider the ethical principles, scientific facts, legal regulations and the biopsychosocial and cultural characteristics of the patient in the medical decision making process. Place importance and respect the autonomy of patients and the confidentiality of patient information, within the framework of the law and the provisions of healthcare application standards.

X
4

Prioritize patient safety to minimize malpractice by carrying out risk assessment, take the necessary precautions, perform the necessary medical practice and record them.

5

Communicate healthily, openly and effectively with healthcare workers, patients and their relatives, with the communication structured on empathy and care, trust and constructiveness; while being respectful to language, belief, race and cultural characteristics.

X
6

By bearing in mind the patients’ values, beliefs, priorities, and needs; provide evidence-based options and include them in the decision making process.

X
7

Preserve our planet’s resources and consider its effects on the public and individual’s health, advocate to disseminate healthy lifestyle behaviors and modify factors that affect health adversely.

X
8

Reach current, valid and reliable information effectively using technology. Critically evaluate this information for solving problems in an evidence-based medical decision-making process, bearing in mind prevention, diagnosis, and management of diseases.

X
9

Identify problems, create hypotheses, conduct research and employ teamwork to analyze results for generation and dissemination of health-related scientific knowledge.

X
10

By taking feedback and evaluating their performance, determine the areas and options for improvement and implement them within a plan.

X
11

Care for their own personal health, safety and appearance, take the necessary precautions in order to set an example for their colleagues and society.

X
12

Continuously renew themselves in their medical knowledge by always bearing in mind their commitment to lifelong learning principles.

X
13

Using various communication tools, share their professionally gained knowledge in the field of healthcare, opinions, experiences, and evaluations with institutions, colleagues and the public.  Advocate for healthcare and contribute to developing policies to protect and improve it.

X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest