The Grifols Foundation Chair of Bioethics-UVIC and the Chair of Palliative Care at the UVic-UCC/ICO organize the third edition of the course on an introduction to bioethics for healthcare professionals.
The aim of the course is to provide participants with tools to identify and analyze ethical dilemmas in their professional practice, and to discuss clinical decision-making from a bioethical perspective. The course will begin with an introduction to the origin and basic concepts of bioethics, before moving on to address issues such as how ethics committees operate, the rights of the patient, the clinical relationship, quality of life in complex decisions, and the allocation of health resources.
Teaching staff:
- Marius Morlans. Nephrologist. President of the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia.
- Francisco Montero. Philosopher and nurse
- Sergio Ramos. Philosopher. Professor of Bioethics at the University of Barcelona
- Núria Terribas. Jurist. Director of the Víctor Grífols and Lucas Foundation and of the UVic-UCC Bioethics Chair
- Xavier Gómez-Batiste. Professor at the UVic-UCC Faculty of Medicine. President of the UVic Palliative Care Chair
Online course 25 hours
From 23 September to 31 October
Course given in Spanish
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The report includes activities, awards and bioethics publications for 2021, together with key organizational information.
2025
With Cecilia Borràs, Anna Sintes and Josep Vilajoana
01/07/2025
Round table within the XVI Josep Egozcue Lecture entitled "Mental health and society: a new pandemic?"
- Cecilia Borràs, psychologist, director of the Association "After Suicide - Association of Survivors (DSAS)".
- Anna Sintes, clinical psychologist of childhood and adolescence. Psychiatry and Psychology Service of the Sant Joan de Déu-Esplugues Hospital.
Moderator: Josep Vilajoana, PhD in Psychology. President of the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation. Member of the Ethics Committee of Social Services of Catalonia.
*Available in Catalan only
