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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Ágnes Dósa, MD, JD, PhD e-mail: dosaagi@yahoo.com
Imre Szebik, MD, PhD e-mail: szebimre@net.sote.hu
Jeno Lorincz, MD, JD e-mail: lorjen@net.sote.hu
Department:
Institute of Behavioral Sciences
Department of Bioethics
NET Budilding, 19th, 20th floor
1089. Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4.
Tel: 210-2953
Secretary: NET Building, 20th floor, Room-2005
List of questions
1. Deontological theories of ethics.
2. Utilitarian theories of ethics.
3. Kant and the categorical imperative
4. Virtue ethics
5. The principles of medical ethics
6. Justice and medical ethics: the allocation of scarce medical resources.
7. Paternalism in medical practice
8. Informed consent
9. Information disclosure for terminally ill patients
10. Advance Directives
11. Surrogate and Substitute Decisions
12. Medical confidentiality
13. Experimentation on human subjects
14. Objection to Transplantation of Organs and Counterarguments
15. Ethical problems of live organ donation
16. Organ donation from brain-dead donors: the system of donor cards.
17. Organ donation form brain-dead donors: presumed consent
18. Stages of Dying
19. No-Code Decisions
20. Withholding Fluids and Nutrition in terminally ill patients
21. Active and Passive Euthanasia
22. Withdrawing and withholding life sustaining treatment.
Textbook:
Conrad Fischer—Caterina Oneto (2009): USMLE Medical Ethics: The 100 cases you are most likely to see on
the exam (Second edition) New York: Kaplan Publishing ISBN: 9781419553141
Important:
To participate on at least 75% of the total number of lessons is a prerequisite of getting the signature. Doctor’s
certificate is required to justify absence from the lessons and the exam.
Exam type: semi-final
Sign up for the exam: through the Neptun system.