CENTRE FOR ETHICS,

YENEPOYA UNIVERSITY, MANGALORE

1. FACULTY DETAILS

a. Director: Dr. Vina Vaswani MD, M Phil, MA (Bioethics)

b. International Visiting:

i. Prof Dr Norbert Paul, Director, Department of History, Philosophy andEthics in Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

ii. Prof Dr Bert Gordijn, Director, Institute of Ethics, Dublin CityUniversity, Dublin, Ireland

c. National Visiting:

i. Dr. Amar Jesani, Founder Trustee, Anusandhan Trust, Mumbai andFounder Editor, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

ii. Dr. Anant Bhan, MBBS, MHSc (Bioethics), IndependentResearch and Ethics Consultant, Pune/Bhopal

d. In-house:

i. Dr. Ravi Vaswani, MD, PGDBEME, PGDHPE, Professor & Head,Department of Internal Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College

ii. Dr. Vinitha Pai, MSc, PhD, PGDBEME, Professor, Department ofBiochemistry, Yenepoya Medical College

iii. Dr. Uma Kulkarni, MS, PGDBEME, Associate Professor, Departmentof Ophthalmology, Yenepoya Medical College

iv. Dr. Rashmi Jain, MS, PGDBEME, Associate Professor, Department ofOphthalmology, Yenepoya Medical College

v. Dr. Vijayalakshmi S, MS, PGDBEME, Assistant Professor,Department of ENT, Yenepoya Medical College

2. ACADEMICS

a. Post Graduate Diploma in Bioethics and Medical Ethics (PGDBEME):

i. 2014 batch: 12 students of the fourth batch of PGDBEME-2014appeared for the exams and successfully completed the course. Two ofthem passed with A+, eight with A and two with B+ grades.

ii. 10 students of 2013 and 12 of 2014 were awarded thepostgraduate diploma in the 4th Annual Convocation of YenepoyaUniversity held on 24th January 2015.

iii. Ten students enrolled for the PGDBEME-2015 batch fromvarious fields like Dentistry, Medical and Allied Sciences:

1. Dr. Bhakti J Sadhu Post graduate student, A J Institute ofDental Sciences, Mangalore

External

2. Dr. CarolineD’Souza

Post graduate student, A J Institute ofDental Sciences, Mangalore

External

3. Ms. Manal Hassan Post graduate student at KSHEMA,Mangalore

External

4. Dr. Pooja J Shetty Asst. Professor, A J Institute of DentalSciences, Mangalore

External

5. Ms.Seemanthini T S Asst. Professor, Clinical Psychology,KMC, Attavar

External

6. Dr. Prerna Shetty Post Graduate Student, A J Institute ofDental Sciences, Mangalore

External

7. Dr. Vikram Palimar Professor and Head, Dept. of ForensicMedicine, KMC, Manipal

External

8. Dr. Poonam Naik Professor, Department of CommunityMedicine, Yenepoya University

Internal

9. Dr. CK Ballal Associate Professor,Neuro Surgery,KMC, Mangalore

External

10. Dr. Qudusia Sultana Asst. Professor, Department of Anatomy,Yenepoya University

Internal

b. Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Ethics (PGDCE) :

i. 2013 and 2014 Batch: Four students took up their examination andpassed out successfully. Two with A+, one with A and one with B+.

ii. The four students were awarded their postgraduate diplomas inthe 4th Annual Convocation of Yenepoya University held on 24thJanuary 2015.

iii. PGDCE 2015 Batch: Four students have enrolled for thePGDCE 2015 batch.

3. RESEARCH PROJECTS

a. PGDBEME:

Name Title of the project1. Dr. Anitha A Assessment of Knowledge and awareness among practicing

Orthodontists in Dakshina Kannada with regard to informedconsent in clinical practice and research

2. Dr. Aswini Dutt R Perceptions of health care givers of mentally challengedchildren with respect to Autonomy, Decision-Making and Valid Consent

3. Dr. Bindhu S Knowledge, attitude, perception among students, teachers andlay people regarding Human dignity and Assessment ofBarriers to whole body donation - A Cross Sectional Study

4. Dr. Hari Kishore Bhat Placebo Control Trial : Is it another Tuskegee Trial? “A studyon perception of Ethical Issues in Use of Placebo in Researchamongst Interns, Post Graduates, Junior Faculty and SeniorFaculty in one of the Health Science Universities of DakshinaKannada District”

5. Dr. Leena Pramod Designer Babies are here. Are we ready?6. Dr. Nirgude Abhay

Subhash RaoDetermining the competencies for public health ethicist

7. Dr. Rajesh M A study to evaluate the knowledge of dental faculty towardsethical issues about stem cell therapy in Bangalore

8. Dr. Sahana D Acharya Knowledge, attitude and perception of health care ethics amongtechnicians in a tertiary care hospital in South India

9. Dr. Tharun VargheseJacob

A comparative study on the knowledge, awareness andattitudes on the varied ethical aspects of oral fluids (saliva)among undergraduate (interns) and postgraduate students in a

private dental college in Trivandrumdistrict (Kerala)10. Viji Prasad C Attitude of Doctors and Staff Nurses towards Euthanasia in

selected hospitals in Mangalore – A Pilot study11. Dr. Ann Jose

KannampallyInstitutional Ethics Committees Constitution and Compliancewith Receommended Guidelines in and around Mangalore – APilot Survey

12. Dr. VijayaHegde Attitude of Health Care Personnel towards Ethics

b. PGDCE:

Name Title of the project1. Mr. Syed Imran Perceived understanding of Informed consent among PG

students and patients undergoing major abdominal surgeries ina selected hospital, Mangalore

2. Dr. Deepthi R.V Questionnaire survey on the awareness and attitude ofundergraduate medical students regarding the medico legal andethical aspects of human organ donation and transplantation

3. Dr. VijayalakshmiSubramaniam

Assessment of empathy among undergraduate medical studentsof Yenepoya University

4. Dr. Uma Kulkarni Assessing the need of trained linguistic interpreters for doctor–patient communication in a teaching hospital of amulti-linguistic town in South India

4. CONFERENCES ATTENDED AND PARTICIPATION AS RESOURCEPERSONS:

Dr. Vina Vaswani1. 2nd International Conference on Ethics Education By

International Association for Education in Ethics (IAEE) andpresented an oral presentation on “Impact of Training Program inResearch Ethics- A Yenepoya Experience”.

Ankara, Turkey 21- 23 May14

2. 10th satellite meeting of the Global Forum for BioethicsResearch (GFBR) on (sponsored by NIH, USA and Wellcome

Mexico City 24-28 June 2014

Trust, UK) and the 12th World Congress of Bioethics organizedby International Association of Bioethics at Hotel HiltonReforma, Mexico City.

3. Key Note address on “Ethics of Forensic Medicine in Disasters:How prepared are we? An Indian Perspective”, at the Conferencetitled “Ethics and Death, Dying and the Deceased in Disasters”organized by Split University School of Medicine, Croatia

Croatia27-28 April 2015

4. Nominated as member of the Working Group 3 for Research inEthics of Disaster.

5. 5th National Bioethics Conference of Integrity in Medical Care,Public Health and Health Care Research on 11th and 12thDecember 2014 and International Symposium on “Corruption inhealth care and medicine”

13 December 2014St. John’s NationalAcademy of HealthSciences, Bengaluru

6. Conducted a session on “Ethical and Legal issues of MedicalRecords” at the Orientation Program on Medical RecordDocumentation, for the Post Graduates and Interns of YenepoyaUniversity organized by the department of HospitalAdministration

12-14 May 2014Yenepoya University

7. Conducted a session on Ethical considerations in Research, at theCDE program and Workshop on “Evidence Informed Dentistry”organized by the Department of Public Health Dentistry, A.J.Institute of Dental Sciences in Association with InternationalAssociation for Dental Research, India Division

19 August 2014A.J. Institute ofDental Sciences

8. Conducted a session on “Ethics in Research” for the Ph.Dstudents of January 2014 batch

30 August 2014Yenepoya University

9. Conducted a session on “Ethics in Research” for the Ph.Dstudents of July 2014 batch

2 February 2015Yenepoya University

10. Conducted a session on “Ethical issues in feeding inEnd-of-life” as a part of the course on Palliative Care Nursing

8April 2015Y e n e p o y aNursing College

11. Participated as an expert consultant for the seminar titled''Bio(medical ) economies today: Understanding issues of ethics,markets and labour” organized by Sama – Resource Group forWomen and Health

29-30 May 2015New Delhi

Dr. Leena Pramod, Curator, Student Post Graduate Diploma in Bioethics andMedical Ethics, Centre for Ethics

12. Attended and presented a poster titled “Knowledge, attitude andperception of physicians with respect to four principles ofbioethics vis. a vis the knowledge and perception of health careseekers at a tertiary care hospital in Mangalore” at 5th NationalBioethics Conference

11-13 December2014St. John’s NationalAcademy of HealthSciences, Bengaluru

Dr. Rashmi Jain, Part Time faculty, Centre for Ethics 13. Conducted a workshop on Good Authorship Practices – Filling in

the GAP As a part of the 5th National Bioethics Conference

10- 13December2014 St. John’s NationalAcademy of Health14. Attended the pre-conference workshop on “Developing

Curriculum for Integrated Teaching of Bioethics” in MBBS andNursing course conducted by the St. John’s Departments ofMedical Ethics and Medical Education and Christian MedicalCollege, Vellore

15. Attended the meeting of the Heads of Units of Internationalnetwork of UNESCO Chair in Bioethics from around the worldon

4-5 January 2015 Jerusalem

5. PROGRAMS ORGANIZED: a. The third annual Intensive Summer Workshop on Ethics and Research

(I-SWEAR) was conducted from 26th to 30th May 2014 with 33participants from within the University and outside. Nine CME credits wereaccorded to this workshop by KMC. It included 22 sessions covering all theethical issues that could possibly arise when doing research on humansubjects.

b. Guest lecture by Public Health Ethicist Dr. Bebe Loff, from Michel Kirby,Centre for Public Health, Monash on 17th December 2014 titled “Mitigatingpatients dissatisfaction - the Australian perspective”.

c. Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Leo Pessini, Vice Rector, University of SanCamillo, Sao Paolo, Brazil on 20th April 2014 on the topic “Bioethics inLatin America and Clinical Bioethics”.

d. Mentoring and Training of Institutional Ethics Committees: i. Bharathi Vidya Peeth, Pune on 20 February 2014ii. S.S Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre,

Davangere on 26 September 2014

6. PUBLICATIONSa. Dr. Vina Vaswani, is author of a chapter ‘Clinical Ethics Teaching’ in

Global Encyclopedia of Bioethics Teaching, Springer; USA (in press)b. Bioethics Education in a Global Perspective, Challenges in Global Bioethics

– Bioethics Education in India; Edited By Henk Ten Have, Springerpublications; Dr.Vina Vaswani and Dr. Ravi Vaswani.

7. ACCOLADES: 1. Dr.Vina Vaswani: Nomination to the Editorial Board of International Journal

of Ethics Education(http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/applied+ethics/journal/40889) bySpringer Publishers. This Journal is the official journal of the InternationalAssociation for Education in Ethics (IAEE) that will have its next internationalconference in Brazil in 2015.

8. COLLABORATION

a. International Collaboration: An MOU has been signed between YenepoyaUniversity, India and Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico on15th January 2015. The memorandum includes special short term academic

programs, and student exchanges, curriculum development, exchange offaculty members and students, exchange of academic materials and otherinformation, and collaboration on research grants.

b. International Student Exchange: As a part of the student exchangeprogram, in the fourth year running three students from Johannes GuttenbergUniversity Germany visited Yenepoya University from 4th March 2015 to 3rd April 2015 and observed clinical work in the departments of Medicine,OBG, General Surgery/Anesthesia & Pediatrics.

9. STUDENT ACTIVITIES a. Inter-Collegiate Ethics Skit Competition: The students of the

Undergraduate courses in Biomedical Ethics and Environmental ethicsparticipated and bagged the first prize at the Inter-Collegiate Ethics SkitCompetition on “Ethical Issues in Health care” at Fr. Muller MedicalCollege Mangalore on 22nd September 2014. The theme of the skit was“My body…their decision”. Nine colleges from in and aroundMangalore participated. The skit highlights the paternalistic model of thedoctor-patient relationship in the present day scenario. The concept andscript were designed by Mr. Sajjad Salman.

b. International Students Day celebration “Shikshit Bharat, SakshamBharat”in Yenepoya University, a UGC initiative for quality educationon 17th November 2014: Essay and speech competitions, forumdiscussions and focus group discussion were conducted. Topics coveredwere enhancing quality of education, improving the teaching methodology,strengthening infrastructure, more power to girl children to decide theirfuture and more options to seek careers and improving access to educationand making free education compulsory up to 18 years, reflective learningstrategies, teachers training and certification and teaching through rolemodeling.

Winners of the Speech competition:-1. Dr. Roshan Adhikary, MDS, Yenepoya Dental College2. Zainaba Raheeza, MA, Yenepoya Physiotherapy College3. Zehbeen Subair, BDS, Yenepoya Dental CollegeWinners of the Essay competition:1. Sajjad Salman, MBBS, Yenepoya Medical College2. NhanthinhiJagadeesh, MBBS, Yenepoya Medical College

c. Students’ participation in Ethics day: Ethics day was celebrated on 20thApril 2015. Prof. Dr. Leo Pessini, Vice Rector, University of San Camillo,

Sao Paolo, Brazil and Fr. Baby Ellickal, Vicar Provincial Superior, of theMinistry of the Infirm (MI) were the guests.

i. He distributed certificates to the successful students of the CertificateCourse in Clinical Ethics Consultation, Internship Module Ethics andHumanities for Physiotherapy students and Choice-based CreditCourses in Bioethics/Medical Ethics and Environmental Ethics.

ii. Certificates of participation and a mug with the logo of Centrefor Ethics and Yenepoya University were distributed to students whotook part in the activities in the run-up.

iii. Certificates were awarded to 15 students of YenepoyaPhysiotherapy College who completed their Ethics Internship program.

10. ALUMNI ACTIVITIES:

Two Alumni update meetings were held.

a. Dr. Bebe Loff on ethical issues such as autonomy, informed consent andjustice. She was questioning the wisdom of applying ethical principles fromwest applied in Indian context.

b. Interactive meeting with Prof. Dr. Leo Pessini, Vice Rector, University ofSan Camillo, Sao Paolo, Brazil and Fr. Baby Ellickal, Vicar ProvincialSuperior, of the Ministry of the Infirm (MI). Bioethics in Latin America, thechanging scenarios in ethics and prominence of clinical ethics wasdiscussed.

He said he was moved by the sincere appreciation of Alumni as to whatbioethics program has done to them.