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Discussion outline for Year 1 Semester 1 PPSD Session on 6th August 2008 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), and DrPH (Harvard).
1. Explain the academic definition of religion based on: an object of worship, a prophet, theology, scriptures, doctrines & dogmas, rites, rituals, & ceremonies, icons or symbols, holidays, ethics and social teachings.
2. Explain why understanding the patient’s religious belief is important in medical practice.
3. Discuss how specific Islamic religious concepts relate to medicine: excellence / quality, monotheism, messengers and messages, eschatology, sinning, and transgression.
4. Explain how a patient’s understanding of re-determinism affects health-related behavior with reference to beliefs about human will, human responsibility and accountability for actions / choices, human rights and limits to individual freedom, disease (causation, prevention, and treatment), health promotion, and reconciliation between pre-determination and probability theory.
5. Explain dogmas with medical implications in Buddhism and Hinduism, Confucianism and Taoism, Christianity and Judaism.