Medical Ethics
Lecture slides for MED 431, fourth-year M.B.B.S., College of Medicine, King Khalid University. Lectures are posted as the term runs.
This term
Introduction to the Course
Who decides? — the history of medical ethics: three decisions medical knowledge cannot settle, what makes something an ethical dilemma, and the six moments that changed what a doctor is allowed to do.
Rules and Regulation
Rules and regulation during undergraduate study and postgraduate training — the attendance, conduct and dress rules you live under at KKU, what changes in the internship year, and what the Law of Practicing Healthcare Professions and the SCFHS Code of Ethics require of every doctor in the Kingdom.
Academic Integrity and Copyright
Academic integrity and copyright — the six values, the violations by name and the price the Conduct Code fixes for them, what the Saudi Copyright Law protects and permits, and how to write to your teachers.
Privacy and Confidentiality
Privacy and confidentiality — the circle of confidence, what it demands on the ward and in the record, the narrow exceptions in the Law and the Code, the family's request, WhatsApp, and the Personal Data Protection Law.
Read with the lectures
Applied Medical Ethics
The course book — eighteen chapters, built around real cases, the four principles and the Islamic medical-ethics tradition.
Question Bank
113 single-best-answer scenarios with the reasoning explained.
Trainee Edition
The shorter edition, written for the wards.