BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY/

MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE

Course Title: Laboratory Management and Supervision

COURSE OUTLINE
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY LAWS and BIOETHICS
Course Description This course deals with various laws that are relevant to
the Medical Technology/Medical Laboratory Science
profession with emphasis on the Philippine Medical
Technology Act of 1969 (RA 5527) and its amendments.
It also includes the study of Bioethics focusing on the
bioethical principles and their applications to health as
well as major bioethical issues that affect human life.
Professional ethics with emphasis on the Code of Ethics
of Medical Technologists is also covered. The course
also includes discussions on the values and virtues of
healthcare providers. .
Course Credit 3 units
Contact Hours 3 hours per week / total of 54 hours per Semester
Placement Second Year-2nd Semester
Pre-Requisite Principles of Medical Laboratory Science Practice 2
Ethics
Course Outcomes 1. Discuss the different laws, presidential decrees,
administrative orders related to medical
technology/medical laboratory science practice
2. Elucidate the rights, privileges, duties, and
responsibilities of medical
technologists/medical laboratory scientists
relevant to the practice of the profession
3. Evaluate cases involving bioethical issues
4. Apply ethical and bioethical principles in the
real world setting
5. Exhibit, critical and analytical thinking skills and
leadership qualities
6. Demonstrate the necessary virtues and
characteristics of ethical healthcare
professionals

Course Outline PART I: LAWS PERTAINING TO THE MEDICAL

TECHNOLOGY PROFESSION
1.1. R.A. 5527: The Philippine Medical Technology Act of
1969
1.2. Amendments to R.A. 5527
1.2.1. R.A. 6138
1.2.2. P.D. 498
1.2.3. P.D. 1534

1.3. R.A. 8981: PRC Modernization Act of 2000

1.4. R.A. 4688: An Act Regulating the Operation and

Maintenance of Clinical Laboratories and
Requiring the Registration of the Same with the
Department of Health, Providing Penalty for the
Violation Thereof, and for Other Purposes

1.5. R.A. 7719: An act promoting voluntary blood

donation, providing for an adequate supply of
safe blood, regulating blood banks, and
providing penalties for violation thereof

1.6. RA 11166: Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act

1.7. RA 9165: Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act

of

2002

1.8. RA 9288: Newborn Screening Act

1.9. RA 7170 Organ Donation Act

1.10. RA10912 Continuing Professional

Development Act of 2016

1.11. Data Privacy Act

1.12. Updated Laws Pertaining to Medical Technology

Practice

PART II. BIOETHICS

2.1. Introduction to Bioethics
2.1.1. Definitions of Health
2.1.2. Definitions of Sickness, Disease, and Illness
2.2. Ethics
2.2.1. Etymology
2.3.2. Ethos of Man
2.3.3. Ethics as a Practical Science
2.3.4. Bioethics, Health Ethics , Professional Ethics
2.3. Importance of Ethics and Health Ethics
PART III. THE CALLING OF THE HEALTH CARE
PROVIDER
4.1. The Healthcare Profession
4.1.1. Merton’s Values of a Profession
4.1.2. Merton’s knowing, doing, and helping
Principles
4.1.3. Differences Between Profession and
Occupation
4.1.4. Characteristic of Trust
4.1.5. Relationship of Health Care Provider and
Patient
4.2. The Patient’s Duties and Rights
4.3. Personalizing the Health Care Profession
4.4. The Psychoanalytical Model
4.5. Duties/Rights of the Health Care Provider

PART IV. BASIC ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

5.1. Stewardship
5.2. Totality
5.2.1. Application in Health Care
5.2.2. Relationship of Totality to Wholeness
5.3. Double Effect Principle
5.4. Principle of Cooperation
5.4.1. Formal and Informal Cooperation
5.4.2. Immediate and Mediate

PART V. MAJOR BIOETHICAL PRINCIPLES

6.1 Respect for a Person
6.1.1. Respect as a Value
6.1.2. Principle of Free and Informed Consent
6.2. Importance of Free and Informed Consent
6.2.1. Patient’s Right to Information
6.2.2. Proxy Consent
6.3. Principles of Justice
6.3.1. Neighborly Relations
6.3.2. Types of Justice
6.4. Beneficence
6.4.1. Application of the Principle of Beneficence to
Health Care
6.5. The Inviolability of Life
6.5.1. Crimes against Human Life
Suicide
Mutilation
Sterilization
Euthanasia
 Drug addiction
Alcoholism
Abortion
Others
6.6. Non-Maleficence

VI. APPLIED HEALTH ETHICS

7.1. Informed Consent
7.1.1. Functions
7.1.2. Elements
7.2. The Beginning of Life
7.2.1. Principal Values of Human Sexuality
7.2.2. Rights of a Person to Sex and Parenthood
7.2.3. Maternal and Fetal Conflicts
7.2.4. Double Effect Principle to Maternal and Fetal
Conflict
7.2.5. Artificial Insemination and In-Vitro Fertilization
7.3. The End of Life
7.3.1. Needs of a Dying Person
7.3.2. Role of the Health Care Provider in Caring for
the Dying Person

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Prepared by: Dr. Frieda Hapan