Master's Degree in Bioethics and Biolaw
Competencies are the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes to be acquired by students throughout the degree, aimed at preparing them for the exercise of professional activities.
CB6 – Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
CB7 – Students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their problem-solving ability in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
CB8 – Students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, while incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
CB9 – Students should be able to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.
CB10 – Students have the learning skills that will allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
CG1 – Train healthcare professionals to recognise the ethical aspects of their professional practice, knowing how to identify moral conflicts and the values at stake in these conflicts.
CG2 – Equip healthcare professionals with knowledge that enables them to critically and systematically analyse these aspects.
CG3 – Provide professionals with practical skills to integrate these dimensions into the ongoing decision-making process and be able to reason them out.
CG4 – Provide more in-depth and systematic training in Bioethics and Biolaw to a group of professionals so that they can be Bioethics consultants, qualified members of healthcare ethics committees, clinical research ethics committees, deontological commissions and to promote and coordinate teaching in bioethics and biolaw in the community.
CB11 – Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
CE1 – Recognize ethical and legal problems in healthcare practice
CE2 – Possess sufficient knowledge to understand the most important concepts and theories in the history of bioethics, relating them to others from related disciplines
CE3 – Become familiar with the jurisprudential analysis of assumptions framed within Biolaw.
CE4 – Construct and criticize formal and informal arguments in the field of Bioethics, recognizing their strength or weakness and any relevant fallacies.
CE5 – Analyze the structure of complex and controversial ethical problems, detecting, formulating and proposing alternative approaches.
CE6 – Integrate ethical discourse, taking into account the current multiculturalism in evolved societies and develop arguments that attempt to understand this multiculturalism and better explain one's own positions.
CE7 – Become familiar with the civil and criminal liability of biomedical professionals.
CE8 – Identify the important aspects of the health-care provider-patient relationship in order to be able to analyze the ethical problems that arise in daily clinical practice.
CE9 – Promote a reflective, dialoguing and communicative attitude towards all situations that require decisions regarding both extraordinary measures and limitations of therapeutic effort.
CE10 – Understand the notion of consent, the principle of autonomy and familiarity with the legally required conditions for the validity of consent.
CE11 – Acquire a favorable disposition towards a communicative clinical relationship based on the patient.
CE12 – Understand the importance of methodology in solving bioethical problems
CE13 – Understand methodological diversity and, especially, the differences between principlist and consequentialist approaches.
CE14 – Learn to communicate ethical arguments in public, defending one’s own convictions.
CE15 – Know and assess the different ethical control tools to which biomedical research in Spain must be subject.
CE16 – Reflect on the importance of research in bioethics.
CE17 – Know the basic contents of the code of ethics of the medical and nursing profession
