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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
bio-medical sciences
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Ein Karem
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Shiri Shkedi-Rafid
Coordinator Office Hours:
Everyday- following email correspondance
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Shiri Shkedi-Rafi
Prof
Course/Module description:
The course aims to provide students with understanding of problems around decision making, especially with regards to health.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will get to know formal models by which a 'rational' decision should be made, and their limits.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
Judgment and choice biased.
Bounded Rationality.
Prospect Theory.
Framing.
Uncertainty.
Second opinion.
Required Reading:
1. Raiffa, H., “Decision Analysis”, Addison-Wesley (R), 1968.
2. Chapman G.B. and Sonnenberg F.A., “Decision Making in Health Care”, Cambridge Press, 2000.
3. Goutham Rao, “Rational Medical Decision Making, A Case-Based Approach”. McGraw Hill, 2007.
4. Kahneman D. and Tversky, A. Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision uneder Risk, Econometrica, vol 47, March 1979, pp. 263-291.
5. Greene H.L., Johnson W.P., and Maricic M.J., “Decision Making in Medicine”, Mosby, 1993.
6. Sox, HC, M. Blatt, Higgins, MC, Marton, KI, “Medical Decision Making”, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1988.
7. Hunink, M. G. Myriam, Glasziou, Paul P., Siegel, Joanna E., Weeks, Jane C., Pliskin, Joseph S., Elstein, Arthur S. and Weinstein, Milton C. “Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values”. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
8. Itzhak Gilboa. “Making Better Decisions: Decision Theory in Practice”. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
9. Kreps, David M. “Notes on the Theory of Choice”. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988.
10. Itzhak Gilboa. “Rational Choice”. MIT Press, 2010.
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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