Assistant Professor School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Background: The accumulation and improvement of students’ knowledge and skills are not necessarily the same as empowering students to benefit sentient beings. Everyone in the world is related to one another. In medical ethics, the physician’s guiding maxim is “First, do no harm.”
Objectives: Therefore, it is important to lead students to pursue the truth of life and the way of the mind with integrity, honesty and decency. The course “Pharmacoepidemiology and Ethics” invites you to explore bioethics, medical ethics, pharmacy ethics, and pharmacoepidemiology ethics.
Methods: After introducing related theories, especially that from buddhism, religion, and ethics perspectives, this course deals with some of the important issues and principles of pharmacy ethics, including good conduct, avoidance of killing, justice, autonomy, integrity, and fidelity. This course will invite scholars and experts, including pharmacy, philosophy, ethics, medical science, jurisprudence, sociology, public health, nursing science, and pharmacoepidemiology to contribute an interdisciplinary perspective and evaluate students’ performance concerning various cases in pharmacoepidemiology ethics.
Results: The NTU CEIBA, NTU COOL, ZUVIO, and NTU CINEMA will be used in the class teaching and discussion to incorporate digital humanities in the classroom activities.
Conclusions: Everyone in the world is related to one another. It is important to lead everyone in the world to pursue the truth of life and the way of the mind with integrity, honesty and decency via pharmacoepidemiology and ethics.
