Social Medicine and Medical Ethics

Social Medicine and Medical Ethics

„Social Medicine and Medical Ethics" (SMME) is taught in the following semester: IV.
Forms and methods of education: lectures, seminars, discussions, solving cases, implementation of a task, multimedia presentations.

ANOTATION OF THE COURSE: 
SMME course gives an opportunity for gaining theoretical knowledge and competence about:

• Public health specific features, its measuring and factors that influence it;
• Methods of scientific research;
• Moral principles that regulate professional activity of the dental doctor.

OBJECTIVE OF THE CURRICULUM:
Generating basic knowledge about global problems of public health and their solving as well as abilities for solving ethical conflict situations in professional practice.

CURRICULUM TASKS:

• Generating basic knowledge about modern concept related to health;
• Generating basic knowledge about health social factors, measuring of Public health, health risk groups, tendencies in development of health condition of particular public groups;
• Introduction to methods of scientific research – collecting and analyzing literature data, formulating aim, analyzing the results;
• Forming knowledge about basic principles in medical ethics, standards for good dental practice, requirements in ethical codex of Bulgarian Dental Association, ethical norms in dental medicine as a part of international documents;
• Acquiring abilities for solving conflicts of moral essence in clinical practice.

Forming of marks:

• giving marks for students’ activity during the semester;
• examination during the summer session.