The UNESCO Core Curriculum as a Basis for Training in BioethicsABSTRACT
The biotechnological revolution of recent decades has resulted in the development of an almost unlimited power over human life. This context requires the professional to have a global vision on the ethical and social problems of the contemporary era, based on sound philosophical and legal bases. This leads to the necessity of promoting new skills and expertise related to professional life. The teaching of bioethics has therefore emerged as a possible curriculum innovation; an alternative to the traditional prescriptive and normative model. This article aims to describe the experience of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the University of Brasilia using the Core Curriculum proposed by UNESCO as a teaching-learning tool suitable for teaching bioethics. The pedagogical dilemmas faced by bioethics as a discipline include: the construction of its own content, structure, theoretical concepts to be followed, and its own goals. Contextualizing and improving the strategy proposed by the Core Curriculum could represent the development of important facilitating instruments for teachers seeking to organize innovative educational practices in bioethics in order to provide effective results in student training.
Bioethics; Medical Education; Curriculum; Staff Development