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Bioethics is a discipline that has one of the important places in studying process at High Medical School. This subject is included as obligatory for all the students and bioethics is integrated with almost all the subjects through the studying years at the University: such as philosophy, history of medicine, justice, deontology, fundamental disciplines, preclinical and clinical disciplines.

The importance of the bioethics for the future doctor is directly connected with the oath “Do Not Harm” and humanism to all alive. Formation of the personality of the future doctor in the context of bioethics has a purpose to create high professionalism, knowing of law, possessing of ethical standards, humanism, and morality, respect the human being from fertilization to biological death.

Considerable part in clinical practice has also bioethics. First of all, exactly the bioethics gives to the future doctor the meaning of the health and disease that for years was widely discussed. It’s very important to take in account psychological changes and use bioethical principles in the model of “doctor-patient relationships”. In the treatment process there is strong responsibility of the doctor to make it high effective, safety, accessible. The algorithm of the treatment decision making is based on the professional experience, moral principles, and has some debatable questions about type of the treatment, its evidence level, safety, percentage of complications (effectiveness/safety ratio).

From the scientific point of view some part of the questions are solved with appearance of Evidence Based Medicine that become a part of the Bioethics studying program. All the above is created to help the medical student to become a perfect clinicist.