Ethics in Translational Medicine II - Participant Related Issues

Translational research presents new organizational, ethical, and legal challenges. Equally, it calls for collaboration and communication between different fields of omics, big data analytics and drug development and attention to the respect for involved participants. A number of dialogical situations in the translational journey of knowledge as well as the ethical questions pertaining to the complex nature of public-private partnerships in health will be identified and discussed in Ethics II.

The course is focused on participant issues. The fellows are asked to reflect ethically on him/herself as a researcher engaged in his/her field (touching on values, positions, relations, etc.). Other participant perspectives that can impact the fellow will eventually be incorporated in reflections (e.g. colleagues, patients, clinics, labs, objects, animal models, society, etc.). Ethical reflections will be promoted through lectures on translation and law. By using artefacts from Medical Museion fellows will also reflect on the ethical issues that these objects represent. 

Fellows will keep a logbook consisting of two exercises. One before the course and one during the course. Instructions will be sent in advance of course.

Course objectives

To understand the moral and legal component in translational medical research by:

• Acquiring competencies that will help identify, assess and resolve ethical and legal questions and provide an analytical framework of translational movements between different settings
• Ascertaining the interrelationship between ethical issues and the production of knowledge through omics, big data and pharma
• Developing dialogical competencies that will support the collaborative effort in generating data, informing clinical therapeutics and improving patient care