in medicine T is unit focuses on ethical and legal issues within a medical context. It uses a lecture on ethical principles and patient consent to look at the historical sources of current practice in applying ethics in healthcare research and in the delivery of patient care. Ethical issues around access to patient data are also considered, with a focus on how these can be managed within an organization. T ere is also a listening text from a seminar where students discuss ethical issues in relation to treatment and research. T is aims to further develop students’ note- taking skills and skills in recognizing the speaker’s point of view. Students are given opportunities to discuss the content in groups and to further develop their seminar skills.
Language skills • listening and speaking
Topics
• principles of medical ethics • informed consent and patient autonomy • research governance
Vocabulary focus
• linking phrases • using words with similar meanings to refer back • phrases that show the speaker’s stance • fi xed phrases from academic English
Skills focus
• writing out notes in full • building an argument in a seminar • linking to a previous point
Key vocabulary
autonomy benefi cence biomedical research clinical justifi cation clinical trial compliance confi dentiality confl ict of interest consent data protection decision dignity ethical principles gain (consent/authorization) informed consent justice legal regulation moral right multicentre study nonmalefi cence ongoing participant paternalism patient patient identifi able information practice preclinical testing public interest research governance research protocol research subject responsibility societal study (published research)
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