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History and Ethics of Psychosurgery Course

History and Ethics of Psychosurgery Course
from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country

What will I learn?

This short course looks into the history of psychosurgery, from early lobotomies to modern DBS, and prepares you to handle current ethical, legal, and human rights standards. You will learn to assess risk-benefit ratios, protect consent for vulnerable groups, handle conflicts of interest, follow key guidelines, and put in place strong oversight, follow-up, and communication in actual clinical and research choices.

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Develop skills

  • Apply core medical ethics to psychosurgery decisions with confidence.
  • Evaluate DBS candidates using clear consent, capacity, and risk safeguards.
  • Detect stigma, power imbalances, and coercion in psychosurgical practice.
  • Navigate DBS and psychosurgery guidelines, human rights, and device regulations.
  • Design ethically robust psychosurgery protocols with oversight and follow-up.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

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