Department staff
Head of the Department: József Kovács, MD, PhD, DSc.
State employees: Tamás Csapody JD, PhD, Ágnes Dósa MD, JD, PhD, Ákos Gerencsér, Katalin Hegedűs PhD, Imre Szebik MD, PhD.
Consultant: Jenő Lőrincz MD, JD.
Permanent guest instructor: Ágnes Zana, PhD.

Objectives of instruction:
a.)    To enable students to recognize ethical issues when encountered in everyday health care  practice and research
b.)    To provide students with a conceptual-logical  system, which helps them to address ethical questions and  to resolve ethical dilemmas in an efficient way
c.)    To introduce students to a body of knowledge, which helps them to understand, respect and protect the rights of patients, research subjects and fellow health care professionals
d.)    To help the would be health care professional to understand the responsibility of the individual, of the health care system and of the society as a whole in maintaining health

Subjects of instruction in Hungarian

Compulsory subjects:

Bioethics-Medical Ethics
Bioethics
Pharmaceutical Ethics

Compulsorily facultative subjects:
Dental Ethics

Optional subjects
Surgical Ethics (in Hungarian)
Thanatological knowledge (in Hungarian)
Vis maior at the bedside—Bioethical questions in clinical practice (in Hungarian)
Jewish Medical Ethics I (in Hungarian).
Jewish Medical Ethics II. (in Hungarian)
Jewish Medical Ethics (in English)

List of questions for students learning in Hungarian

Bioethics—Medical Ethics (Faculty of Medicine, year 4)
Dental Ethics (Faculty of Dentistry,  year 1 and year 4)
Pharmaceutical ethics (Faculty of Pharmacy, year 5)

Textbook:
Dr. Kovács József: A modern orvosi etika alapjai. Bevezetés a bioetikába. (Fundamentals of modern medical ethics. An  introduction to bioethics.) (Second, revised edition) Budapest:Medicina  Publishers, 2006.