A Career in Bioethics- An Expertise in Medical Science beyond Law The certificate in Health Law course "Bioethics Law" offers students a comprehensive training enabling them to specialize in this recent legal discipline that is the law of bioethics. The course covers all aspects of bioethics law: international law, European law, public law, private law, criminal law, fundamental freedoms. This training presents a multidisciplinary dimension, bioethics being at the crossroads of law, science, medicine, and ethics. The originality of this training is all the stronger because it is not very widespread among the offers of legal education on the national territory. Bioethics deals with the following subjects • • • •
Medical intervention aimed at the healing of the disease The role of the patient in dealing with the disease (acceptance or not of the interventions) Intervention in chronic, disabled, oncologic, genetic or obstetric patients who cannot heal but optimize management There is no way to stop the disease.
Questions that become workforce for a specialized professional figure, whose presence is becoming more and more needed day by day in public and private healthcare companies- the bioethics expert. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES • • •
Law firms, Biotechnology sector, International and European organizations.
It is a particularly new professional branch that opens up serious prospects for employment. Expertise: • • • • • • •
Deepening the foundations of ethics and research tools. Refine its course according to its discipline of origin and its research subject (example: ethics and genetics and ethics and vulnerability and/or ethics and clinical trial etc.) Construction of a problem with a multidisciplinary approach Implementation of the methodology on the field of practices during the research internship. Collect and analyze results, interdisciplinary discussion. Know how to write and publish a research paper Know how to prepare and write a publication
Future experts will need to acquire a set of highly varied skills: "It goes from the ability to understand the progress of scientific research to the readership of certain jurisprudence judgments. In general, bioethics and professional ethics are not just about the big issues that shake public opinion but also the different moments of everyday life. Even a simple blood sampling can raise issues of this kind because it involves the relationship between a physician and a patient - says a spokesperson from Astron Institute. Bioethics focuses on the ethical issues of the clinical environment, research, public health, health policies and the environment that affect society. The training programs are aimed at professionals and graduate students from all disciplinary fields (e.g. humanities and social sciences, law, health sciences, biological sciences, etc.) who want to broaden their knowledge and expertise in bioethics.