Thursday, 31/03/2022, 16:00
Workshop leaders: Prof. Lada Zibar, MD, PhD; Tea Štimac, MD, PhD
Introduction: The workshop will face students with real-life ethical issues in a physician's practice. The examples will be discussed within the frame of medical ethics as it is determined by the Croatian Code of Medical Ethics and Deontology. The Code is obligatory for a licensed physician practicing in Croatia. The Croatian Medical Chamber is in charge of judging potential ethical violations of the physicians. The ethical committee deals with the cases and recognizes the most frequent topics in question.
Workshop description: The students will be challenged with ten typical situations. Keeping a patient’s secret, kind communication, informing patient, respecting patient’s wishes, Bonton for critical comments of other physicians’ work, being real expert witness, updating professional knowledge, etc. Each of them will be solved according to the ethical rules after an interactive argumentation. The workshop will make the students familiar with the Code of Medical Ethics and Deontology and other legal and moral principles needed for ethical performance in a physician’s professional life.