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| DEON0003-1 | Questions of ethics : Animal and human experimentation
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| Duration : | 15h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Pierre Drion, Nicolas Janin |
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| Coordinator : | Pierre Drion |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, examination in June |
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Course contents :
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| This course discusses the ethics of animal experiments (preclinical studies) and clinical studies in human medicine. We want the focus on teaching the student by reducing the number of lectures and making students work in groups of 2-3 in order to stimulate their reflection in a supervised group learning. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Course objective: the course looks at the ethical aspects of animal experimentation and clinical studies in human medicine. The teaching will be centred on students, by reducing the number of lectures and having the students work in groups of two or three, in order to stimulate their thinking through supervised group learning. The aim is to give them the tools to eventually apply to their knowledge (that has either been presented through the course or acquired by themselves) through reflecting on concrete problems, and applying to them a considered approach which responds to those problems.
As far as animal experimentation is involved we will outline the procedures that should be carried out in order to treat laboratory animals properly, according to internationally recognised criteria. Thus, the following will be looked at: moral and ethical concerns, the ethics of pet treatment versus ethics in the framework of animal experimentation. In addition, in vivo research, institutional management committees for animal ethics, the concept of the 'three Rs' in the monitoring of animal health and determining limit points, animal healthcare (animal houses and animal house management, statistics, animal origins, personnel training, personnel and respective responsibilities, environment improvements), the influence of stress on research, the influence of illness on research, antibody production, anesthesia and analgesia, euthanasia, health and personnel security.
We expect students to discover by themselves the main rules and regulations concerning good practice, as well as the role and operating regulations of Ethical Committees. This personal research will be presented to the teachers and other students in the form of a Powerpoint representation. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| rganisation: Time & Place : see the course timetable sheets
Student participation: students are required to attend and participate actively (debates)
Particular teaching methods: ex cathedra lectures followed by presentations of work carried out by the students on the basis of a list of subjects drawn up by the teachers, and on which they have worked interactively with the teachers.
Material used by the students. Diverse publications, information drawn from the internet. Presentations are made with the help of Powerpoint files. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| All the lecture notes and student presentations will be placed online on a site accessible to ULg students.
Books, articles and references made ¿¿available when available to students |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Evaluation of student work: equal weight will be given to oral presentations and written work.
Oral presentations will be graded according to the following criteria: the accuracy and clarity of the content, the originality of the work, the quality of the presentation (the way the problem looked at has been treated, and the quality of the communication) |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| teacher:
Pierre Drion professor Liege, CHU, B23
Nicolas Janin, Medical Geneticist, CHU B35 |
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