37236 - Drugs and Bioethics

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, students know:

- the main ethical issues in the clinical trials of drugs;

- principles regulating independent information on medicinal products;

- the problem of conflicts of interest in medical care and in research; how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest.

 

Course contents

- The main ethical issues in the clinical trials of drugs: preclinical vs clinical research; the role of ethics committees; relevant European framework.

- Principles regulating independent information on medicinal products, and sources to obtain independent information;

- Conflicts of interest in medical care and in research: definition; tools to identify potential conflicts and measures taken by review bodies and regulators.

Office hours

See the website of Pier Giorgio Cojutti