Medical Ethics

Prof Saleh Abbas MD FRACS FACS studied medicine at Baghdad University, graduating in 1987. He is currently consultant surgeon and A/ Prof in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, at University Hospital Geelong and Deakin University, Australia. Trained as General Surgeon in Auckland, New Zealand (FRACS), where he also gained a doctoral degree (MD) before sub-specialising in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery in Sydney, Australia. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer reviewed journals such as the British Journal of Surgery and Cochrane library, in addition to presentations at international surgical conferences. He has supervised two master’s degrees in surgery, and is heavily engaged in training the next generation of surgeons as a supervisor of training, accredited by the Royal Australian college of Surgeons.

• 1. Principles and values.- 2. Philosophical Background of medical ethics.- 3. Philosophy of medicine.- 4. Approach to medical ethics.- 5. Fundamental Principles of Medical Ethics.- 6. Conflicts between Principles.- 7. Morals and Virtues.- 8. Human rights.- 9. When Autonomy Undermines Equity.- 10. Justice.- 11. Health care rationing.- 12. Understanding medical Epistemology.- 13. Aristotle, Kant, JS Mill and Rawls.- 14. Patients’s Rights.- 15. The Conflict between Autonomy and Beneficence.- 16. Moral and ethical guidance for medical students.- 17. Decision making.- 18. Ethics and decision making.- 19. Shared decision making.- 20. Medicine and the humanities.- 21. Professional responsibility.- 22. Patient centred care.- 23. Duties of the physician.- 24. The informed consent in surgery and medicine.- 25. Prevention of Ethical Violation.- 26. Special Issues in ethics.- 27. Dehumanisation in Medicine.- 28. How to deal with difficult patients.- 29. Difficult medical colleague.- 30. Doctors, Patients, and Lawyers.- 31. Ethics in human genomic medicine.- 32. Care givers and patients with drug dependence.- 33. Models of doctor-patient relationship.- 34, Breaking bad news.- 35. Artificial intelligence.