1006P - PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC MEDICAL EDUCATION: EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND CURRICULUM REFORM

Dr Omar Hasan Kasule

MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard)

Professor of Epidemiology and Bioethics

Faculty of Medicine King Fahd Medical City Riyadh

EM omarkasule@yahoo.com.

WEB http://omarkasule.tripod.com

ABSTRACT

• epistemological reform is necessary for educational excellence.
• basic concepts and paradigms of Islamic epistemology and methodology of research.
• crisis of knowledge and education in the ummat: duality
• The solution of the crisis = epistemological reform in disciplines of knowledge.
• Epistemological reform= identifying biases in basic paradigms that reflect a non-tauhidi world-view, reformulating basic epistemological concepts and paradigms of various disciplines from a tauhidi paradigm
• necessary curriculum for undergraduate medical education..
• The conclusion is excellence in learning and research will be achieved after epistemological reform that will motivate students and teachers to pursue knowledge within the tauhidi framework that conforms to their inner values and world-view.

1.0 BASIC EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONCEPTS

1.1 What is Islamic epistemology?, nadhariyat al ma’arifat al islamiyyat

1.2 Nature of knowledge, tabi’at al ma’arifat al insaniyyat

1.3 Sources of knowledge, masadir al ma’arifat:

1.4 Classification of knowledge, tasnif al marifat

1.5 Limitations of human knowledge, mahdudiyat al marifat al bashariyyat

2.0 CRISIS OF KNOWLEDGE and EDUCATION, azmat al ma’arifat wa al ta’aliim

2.1 Manifestations of the crisis

2.2 Ummatic malaise due to the knowledge crises

2.3 Historical background

3.0 SOLUTION OF THE KNOWLEDGE CRISIS BY EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND CURRICULUM REFORM

3.1 The concept of reform:

3.2 History of reform

3.3 Reform of disciplines:

3.4 Misunderstanding the reform process

3.5 Practical steps / tasks of the reform process:

4.1 BACKGROUND PHILOSOPHY and CONCEPTS

• 4.1.1 RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND
• 4.1.2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
• 4.1.3 EPISTEMOLOGICAL BACKROUND
• 4.1.4 BASIC SCIENCES BACKROUND

4.2 ETHICO-LEGAL-FIQH CONCEPTS & PRINCIPLES

• 4.2.1 BASICS OF LAWS
• 4.2.2 THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS
• 4.2.3 ISSUES OF CONSENT
• 4.2.4 PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLOSURE
• 4.2.5 RESEARCH

4.3 ISSUES AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF LIFE

4.3.1 Beginning of life issues

4.3.2 Stem cell technology

4.3.3 Embryo/fetal research

4.3.4 Genetic technology

4.3.5 End of life issues

4.4 ETHICO-LEGAL-FIQH ISSUES IN MEDICAL PRACTICE

4.4.1 NORMAL PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

4.4.2 MEDICAL PROCEDURES

4.4.3 CONDITIONS OF ILLNESS

4.5 ETHICO-LEGAL-FIQH ISSUES IN PSYCHO-SOCIAL APPLICATIONS

4.5.1 The Family Institution

4.5.2 Community Problems

4.5.3 Community Action

4.5.4 Civil Transactions

4.5.5 Occupational health issues

4.5.6 Judicial transactions: legal competence

4.5.7 Public health ethics

4.6 PROFESSIONALISM

4.6.1 Professional physician etiquette / conduct with patients

4.6.2 Professional etiquette with the terminally ill/dying: palliative care

4.6.3 Collegial relations / etiquette in a health team

4.6.4 Professional misconduct

4.6.5 Malpractice & negligence

4.7 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

4.7.1 INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT

4.7.2 SKILL DEVELOPMENT