Admission requirements
Students of the master Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Industrial Pharmacy specialisation (mandatory course) and other students of the master Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Description
This course has two goals – the first is to introduce some philosophical ideas and theories that could be the most relevant to ethical issues and problems you might face in the biopharmaceutical sciences. This short module will function as a brief introduction to ethical theory, professional ethics and business ethics. The second goal is to connect these ideas and theories with discussion of concrete cases in the biopharmaceutical sciences, in order to see how these ideas can be applied to the real world, and how they might assist with making difficult ethical decisions.
This course aims to:
Provide an overview of the most common ethical theories.
Provide insight into ethical obligations of a professional (or “qualified person”).
Provide tools and considerations to assist in making difficult ethical decisions, and in confronting ethical dilemmas.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, the student is be able to:
Describe and relate ethical theory and professional ethics to the biopharmaceutical sciences and industrial pharmacy.
Identify ethical dilemmas, and reason your way, based on ethical considerations, to a decision when faced with difficult situations.
Timetable
This course is scheduled for semester 1, period 2.
You will find the timetables for all courses and degree programmes of Leiden University in the tool MyTimetable (login). Any teaching activities that you have sucessfully registered for in MyStudymap will automatically be displayed in MyTimetable. Any timetables that you add manually, will be saved and automatically displayed the next time you sign in.
MyTimetable allows you to integrate your timetable with your calendar apps such as Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and other calendar apps on your smartphone. Any timetable changes will be automatically synced with your calendar. If you wish, you can also receive an email notification of the change. You can turn notifications on in ‘Settings’ (after login).
For more information, watch the video or go to the 'help-page' in MyTimetable. Please note: Joint Degree students Leiden/Delft have to merge their two different timetables into one. This video explains how to do this.
The detailed course schedule will be published on Brightspace course module.
Mode of instruction
Lectures, tutorials (case study and discussion), self-tuition.
Assessment method
This course will be concluded by an individual assignment, based on which the final grade will be determined.
The final grade is expressed using an integer between 1 and 10 and can be rounded off/up to a half integer, with the exception of the grade 5.5. Final grades between 5.50 and 5.99 will be rounded up to 6.0. The final grade should be 6.0 to successfully complete this course.
More detail about the assignment, and the grading criteria, will be made available on the Brightspace module for this course.
Reading list
All readings for this course will be made available on Brightspace.
Registration
Every student has to register for courses with the enrolment tool MyStudymap. There are two registration periods per year: registration for the fall semester opens in July and registration for the spring semester opens in December. Please see this page for more information.
Please note that it is compulsory to both preregister and confirm your participation for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. If you want to retake the exam of the course without following the lectures, you have to contact the coordinator of the course to see if this is possible (you would have to passed the other assignments of the course in the earlier year).
Confirming your exam participation is possible until ten days before the exam.
Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found [here] (https://studentuniversiteitleiden.screenstepslive.com/a/1490971-all-about-planning-and-enrollments).
Contact
Coordinator of the Industrial Pharmacy specialisation: t.b.d.
Remarks
Maximum 15 students. Students of the specialisation Industrial Pharmacy of the master programme Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences have guaranteed places.
Lectures are in English.
This information is without prejudice. Alterations can be made for next year.