Master's Degree in Bioethics and Biolaw (Interuniversity)

Competencies

Competencies are the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes to be acquired by students throughout the degree, aimed at preparing them for the exercise of professional activities.

Basic Competencies

CB6 – Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context

CB7 – That students know how to apply the acquired knowledge and their problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.

CB8 – That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, although incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.

CB9 – That students know how to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.

CB10 – Students will have the learning skills to enable them to continue studying in a manner that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.

General Competencies

CG1 – To train healthcare professionals to recognize the ethical aspects of their professional practice, knowing how to identify moral conflicts and the values at stake in these conflicts.

CG2 – Equip healthcare professionals with knowledge that enables them to critically and systematically analyze these aspects.

CG3 – Provide professionals with practical skills to integrate these dimensions into the ongoing decision-making process and be able to reason them out.

CG4 – To provide more in-depth and systematic training in Bioethics and Biolaw to a group of professionals so that they can serve as bioethics consultants, qualified members of healthcare ethics committees, clinical research ethics committees, and ethical commissions, and to promote and coordinate teaching in bioethics and biolaw in the community.

CB11 – Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.

Specific Competencies

CE1 – Recognize ethical and legal problems in healthcare practice

CE2 – Possess sufficient knowledge to understand the most important concepts and theories in the history of bioethics, relating them to others in related disciplines.

CE3 – Become familiar with the jurisprudential analysis of cases within Biolaw.

CE4 – Construct and critique formal and informal arguments in the field of Bioethics, recognizing their strengths and weaknesses and any relevant fallacies.
CE5 – Analyze the structure of complex and controversial ethical problems, detecting, formulating and proposing alternative approaches.

CE6 – Integrate ethical discourse, taking into account current multiculturalism in evolved societies and develop arguments that attempt to understand this multiculturalism and better explain one's own positions.

CE7 – Become familiar with the civil and criminal liability of biomedical professionals.

CE8 – Identify the aspects of the healthcare provider-patient relationship that are important in order to analyze the ethical problems that arise in daily clinical practice.

CE9 – Promote a reflective, communicative and dialogic attitude in all situations that require decisions regarding both extraordinary measures and limitations of therapeutic effort.

CE10 – Understand the notion of consent, the principle of autonomy, and familiarization with the legally required conditions for the validity of consent.

CE11 – Acquire a favorable disposition towards a communicative clinical relationship based on the patient.

CE12 – Understand the importance of methodology in solving bioethical problems

CE13 – Understand methodological diversity and, especially, the differences between principlist and consequentialist approaches.

CE14 – Learn to communicate ethical arguments in public, defending one's own convictions.

CE15 – Know and assess the different ethical control tools to which biomedical research in Spain must be subject.

CE16 – Reflect on the importance of research in bioethics.

CE17 – Know the basic contents of the code of ethics of the Medical and Nursing profession