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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
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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

Knowledge of biomedical sciences

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)

1: What is this course’s level of difficulty?

The level of difficulty in this program is intermediate.

2: Does everyone qualify for a certificate?

No. Only those who pay the certification fee qualify for the certificate.

3: How do I know that the certificate is authentic?

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.

4: Will I have to follow a time table?

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.

5: What language options are available?

There are no language options available. The video lectures and their transcripts, both are in English only.