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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Medicine
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Ein Karem
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Shmuel Reis
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday 1400-1500
Teaching Staff:
Prof
Course/Module description:
The course deals with the dark and enlightened face of medicine and nursing during the Holocaust and their lessons for today's and tomorrow's healthcare practitioners
Course/Module aims:
By the end of the course learners will
1. Know the relevant historical facts
2. Understand the sequence from eugenics to genocide, and the role that medicine and physicians have played in it.
3. Be aware of the wrongful "medical" experiments, know the Nuremberg Code and Helsinki Declaration and their role in contemporary Medical Ethics
4. Be cognizant of the inherent risk of abuse of power in Medicine and develop his way to prevent it
5. Contemplate examples of worthy conduct in impossible circumstances and drow his own conclusions for his future conduct
6. Describe and apply survivors special needs and how to care for them
7. Analyze case studies of the above
8. Will reflect on the above issues and their meaning for his professional identity formation
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Write an essaye on a dilemma from the course issues
2. Interview a survivor
3. Write a reflective diary on their course journey
Attendance requirements(%):
obligatory
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Thus is a hybrid course, with 8 online modules ( two weeks apart), over two semesters with 3 face to face small group meetings in a semester. Each online module is comprised of a mini lecture, a ppt presentation, redings, a discussion forum, links to audio-visual materials and websites. In each module- an assignement to be submitted within the 14 days, each learners reads and evaluates 2 colleagues assignemnts. In the small group meetings the conten of two former modules will be proccessed
Course/Module Content:
1. The Nazi docs & scientists role in the racial doctrines, sterilization, experiments and genocide and their implications for current medical ethics
2. Conduct of Jewish and righteous docs in the ghettos & camps in care, teaching & research, as well as community leadership as a test case of professional conduct in impossible circumstances
3. The inherent risk of abuse of power in Medicine and other health professions, and its prevention. Scruples and identify development
Required Reading:
Dnniel nadav , Medicine & Nazism, Magnes Press
Additional Reading Material:
See the different modules
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 10 %
Participation in Tutorials 30 %
Project work 30 %
Assignments 30 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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