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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
Since it was performed for the first time in 1954, organ transplantation has been surrounded by controversies. With advancements in the drugs and technologies involved, the procedure has evolved significantly over time and improved many patients’ quality of life worldwide. But despite that, donating and obtaining organs are still considered controversial subjects. The Organ Transplantation: Ethical and Legal Challenges online course addresses some of these controversies.
The Organ Transplantation: Ethical and Legal Challenges program aims to answer questions like: Why is the sale of organs forbidden in almost every country? Why don’t Governments confiscate cadaveric organs? Should ‘organ donation euthanasia’ be allowed and should the ‘dead donor rule’ be abandoned? How to deal with conflicts that may arise between the people who care for the future recipient and those responsible for the dying patient (eventual donor)?
The Organ Transplantation: Ethical and Legal Challenges certification syllabus also covers recent developments like the phenomenon of transplantation tourism, donation after cardio-circulatory death, or the detection of physiological functions that remain after a patient has been pronounced brain dead. You can also get yourself a certificate to showcase your newly learned skills. By enrolling in any one of the tracks namely verified and audit the students may learn the programme. During the audit track, learning is free for a limited time period whereas during the verified track learning is unlimited but paid.
The Highlights
- Nine-week course
- Study four to six hours weekly
- Self-paced learning program
- Free access to learning materials
- Video lectures with English transcripts
- Completion certificate available for purchase
- Add shareable certificate directly to LinkedIn
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid programme
- Intermediate programme in Philosophy and Ethics
Programme Offerings
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid programme
- Video lectures with English transcripts
- Nine-week Course
- Study four to six hours weekly
- Free access to learning materials
- Intermediate program in Philosophy and Ethics
- Self-paced learning program
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 2414 | yes | Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid |
- Accessing the learning material for the course is free.
- There is a certification fee to be paid by those who want to get certified.
Organ Transplantation: Ethical and Legal Challenges program fee structure
Training | Fees in INR |
Organ Transplantation: Ethical and Legal Challenges program | NA |
Certification Fee | Rs. 2,414 |
What you will learn
The Organ Transplantation: Ethical and Legal Challenges training will educate learners about:
- Legal and ethical challenges in organ transplantation
- Clinical practices that can help solve these challenges
- Bioethical principles, and their application in organ transplantation
- Institutional and legal frameworks that regulate organ transplantation in different countries
Admission Details
Step 1: If you are interested in the Organ Transplantation: Ethical and Legal Challenges program, click on the link below to go to the edX website, learn more about the course, and apply: https://www.edx.org/course/organ-transplantation-ethical-and-legal-challenges
Step 2: Once you have all the information you need and are ready to register, hit the ‘Enrol’ button.
Step 3: You need to enter your details to create an account on edX. But there is a way around that too. You can register directly using an existing Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Facebook account.
Step 4: You will then get a verification email, and you can start learning immediately after verification.
Application Details
The details you enter while creating your edX account (full name, email address, country/region of residence) is all the information you need to provide. There is no dedicated form for application.
The Syllabus
- Introduction
- Full lesson
- The history of two miracles: A brief historical tour
- Figures on the reality of transplantation
- Problems: Introduction
- Readings
- Quiz
- Full lesson
- Introduction: The case of Marlise Muñoz
- Dying: its dimensions and uncertainties
- The brain death criterion: the Harvard Report
- Brain death in the Law
- Brain death: the diagnosis protocol
- Why do we still discuss about brain death?
- Readings
- Quiz
- Full lesson
- Introduction: the case of Ruben Navarro
- DCD
- DCD in Spain: the legal aspects
- The protocol of uDCD in Spain
- The protocol of cDCD
- Does DCD violate the Dead Donor Rule? On irreversibility
- On the principle of beneficence and the scope of consent
- Readings
- Quiz
- Full lesson
- The cases
- The Dead Donor Rule as a Legal Fiction
- The euthanasic harvesting of organs
- Readings
- Quiz
- Questionnaire
- Full lesson
- Cases' presentation
- The Trolley Case argument
- The dogma of consent and its critics
- To whom do the cadavers and their organs belong?
- The case of the autopsy
- The exceptions to confiscation
- The presumption of being an organ donor: opt-in and opt-out systems
- Organ donation and nudges
- Does presumed consent reach preservation measures in uDCD and DCD?
- The importance of "family veto" in Spain
- Readings
- Quiz
- Full lesson
- The case of Noara
- Some preliminaries: some data and some ethical and legal aspects of living donation
- Consent in living donation
- Who may donate in living donation? Minors and the case of savior-siblings
- To whom may we donate? Directed and non-directed living donation
- Cross-donation and chain-donation
- Confidentiality and publicity of donation
- Why not confiscate organs from living individuals?
- Readings
- Quiz
- Full lesson
- The selling case of the Valencian Autonomous Community
- The crime of organ trafficking in Spain
- The arguments against a market for organs
- Organ trafficking and International Law
- Beyond altruism and pricelessness
- Readings
- Quiz
- Full lesson
- The case of Christian Longo
- The situation in China
- The case of the prisoner who does not consent
- The case of the consenting prisoner
- Readings
- Quiz
- Full lesson
- The case of Sarah Murnaghan
- Lung transplant: allocation criteria
- Organs' transplantation and distributive justice
- From organs' transplantation to allograft transplantation
- Conclusions
- Readings
- Quiz
- Final exam
- Goodbye
Instructors
Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
The level of difficulty in this program is intermediate.
No. Only those who pay the certification fee qualify for the certificate.
The certificate will be signed by the course instructors (Pablo de Lora and Alicia Pérez Blanco) and will have the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid logo printed.
No. There is no time table as this is a self-paced learning program. You can watch the video lectures and study as and when you want to.
There are no language options available. The video lectures and their transcripts, both are in English only.