Entry requirements

Extensive experience in the health sector in the broadest sense; Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE); Licence degree in philosophy; Licence degree or equivalent in the field of health.

Benefits of the program

The uniqueness of this course lies in the fact that it establishes strong links between the philosophical tradition and the most vivid realities of the world of healthcare in the broadest sense; its strength lies in the fact that it provides students with a great deal of support in preparing their dissertation, which is the highlight of their pathway.

Acquired skills

Sound knowledge of the philosophical tradition in the field of ethics; genuine autonomy in ethical reflection and decision-making, and even in teaching ethics

International

Partnership agreement with the Medical University of Warsaw and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Yaoundé 2

Capacities

23

Course venue

Other course venue

CENTRE PICPUS PARIS

Your future career

Access to the M2 Medical Humanities pathway and then to the PhD; in lifelong learning, students obviously keep their existing jobs, but can either enrich the content of these jobs (leading ethics courses, responsibility and/or participation in ethics forums, committees and commissions), or add to their portfolio to progress professionally (e.g. nurses to become managers, practising hospital doctors to become professors)

Professional integration

- Lifelong learning students obviously continue in their existing jobs, but they can either enrich the content of these jobs or take advantage of what they have learnt to advance professionally.

- The programme will enable them to enrich the content of their existing jobs, firstly by being able to respond to requests from their respective establishments: leading ethics courses, running the recently created Regional Ethics Areas, participating in or setting up ethics committees or commissions, and for those who are already trainers in nursing institutes or medical universities, deepening their knowledge then by being able to respond to requests from other establishments, and firstly by becoming medical ethics trainers in nursing institutes, medical universities and social work institutes in their environment.

- The programme will enable them to advance professionally: for example, nurses can use the fact that they have successfully completed this Master's degree to present a more substantial application when they sit the competitive examination for the post of health executive. Similarly, practising hospital doctors wishing to become professors will find this training in medical ethics a useful addition to their portfolio.

Study objectives

- Provide basic philosophical training for ethical reflection.

- Introduce students to the great texts of ethical thought, from Antiquity to the present day.

- Provide them with the means to acquire personal autonomy in reading and using books and other documents on ethics.

- Enable them to think about their practice in the field, exercise vigilance and make ethical decisions based on a study of major philosophical concepts and authors.

Major thematics of study

Philosophy, ethics

Calendar

The programme is organised into sessions of 2 consecutive days (one Wednesday and one Thursday) per month, from November to June