Second International Conference on Education in Ethics, Ankara, Türkiye, 21 - 23 Mayıs 2014, ss.77-78
Second International Conference on Education in Ethics
Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Morphology Campus
Ankara, Turkey, 21 - 23 May, 2014
Abstract
Cambridge Bioethics Education Turkey Working Group*
Murat Aksu, Fatih Artvinli,
Nadi Bakırcı, Tuna Çakar, Muhtar Çokar, Figen Demir, Volkan Kavas, Gülsüm Önal,
Işıl Pakiş, Melike Şahiner, Pınar Topsever, İnci User, Yeşim Işıl Ülman, Kevser
Vatansever, Vedat Yıldırım
Cambridge Consortium of Bioethics Education established the “Turkey Working
Group” in Paris on June 21st, 2013. The Centre of this Group is
Acibadem University School of Medicine, the Department of Medical History and
Ethics, chaired by YIUlman. The Group functions as a collective of scholars,
academics, experts who collaborate interdisciplinarily in
bioethics education.
The Group began to act by organizing workshops to assign its aims and
strategies. The aims of
the Group are to raise awareness in ethics education and moral decision
making in the academy and at clinical setting; to work multiprofessionally
in
coordination with other healthcare professionals; to enhance advocacy of ethics
teaching at university; to follow humanities perspective; to share ideas on
curriculum development; to compare and learn mutually from the experiences; to choose topics for discussion on the issues of bioethics
and societal issues; to structure multi-based research among
countries. It is opening a specific website to facilitate the cooperation and
sharing of information.
The Group specified its third
workshop on the methodology of teaching bioethics at medical schools. This
workshop will take place at Ankara University School of Medicine on May 23rd,
2014, hosted by the Department of Medical History and Ethics. This oral
presentation will give information about the functions of the Group in detail.