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Social Medicine and Medical Ethics

The full MU Plovdiv syllabus for Social Medicine and Medical Ethics, Medicine, Years 2 and 3: 80 topics, every one with a free study note (7 hours of reading), and 1,189 flashcards. Updated 14 November 2026.

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Part I (2nd year) 29 topics

1. Bioethics introduction – definition, history, principles5 min · 16 cards
2. Informed consent6 min · 14 cards
3. Parental decision making. Maternal fetal conflict5 min · 18 cards
4. Advance care planning. Advance directives5 min · 15 cards
5. Confidentiality5 min · 15 cards
6. Cross-cultural issues and diverse beliefs with an emphasis in pediatrics5 min · 14 cards
7. Mistakes. Relationship between law and medical ethics6 min · 17 cards
8. Truth-telling and withholding information. Breaking bad news5 min · 15 cards
9. End of life issues. Euthanasia6 min · 16 cards
10. Spirituality and medicine. Futility5 min · 15 cards
11. Models of physician – patient relationship6 min · 14 cards
12. Patients' rights. Professionalism5 min · 15 cards
13. Moral aspects of human reproduction6 min · 14 cards
14. Moral aspects of transplantation5 min · 15 cards
15. Definition of biostatistics. Research programme and plan. Types of variables and scales of measurement5 min · 14 cards
16. Population and sample. Random sample. Representative sample. Random and systematic error. Sampling techniques5 min · 16 cards
17. Direct standardisation4 min · 15 cards
18. Frequency distribution. Data grouping methods. Graphical summaries5 min · 17 cards
19. Measures of central tendency – advantages and disadvantages. Measures of spread – advantages and disadvantages6 min · 15 cards
20. Normal distribution. 3-sigma rule. Central limit theorem5 min · 15 cards
21. Skewness and kurtosis. Left- and right-skewed distributions5 min · 15 cards
22. Normality tests. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Coefficient of variation5 min · 15 cards
23. Descriptive and inferential statistics. Estimation of population parameters. Confidence interval. Standard error. Sample size calculation6 min · 17 cards
24. Null, alternative and working hypothesis. P-value. Level of significance. Power. Type I and II errors5 min · 16 cards
25. Parametric tests. Selection of hypothesis test. Student's t-test6 min · 15 cards
26. Non-parametric tests. Rank tests. Pearson's chi-squared test. Fisher's exact test6 min · 15 cards
27. Correlation. Correlation analysis. Correlation coefficient. Coefficient of determination5 min · 15 cards
28. Regression analysis. Types of regression models6 min · 15 cards
29. Simple linear regression. Least squares method5 min · 14 cards

Part II (3rd year) 51 topics

1. Social medicine - definition, history, objectives, tasks, and methods.6 min · 14 cards
2. Social etiology, social prophylaxis, social therapy, and social rehabilitation of diseases – definition and objectives.4 min · 13 cards
3. Basic aspects of human health. Social factors of health and disease – classification and mechanism of influence.5 min · 14 cards
4. Individual health. Criteria of health and disease. Health classification.2 min · 13 cards
5. Group and public health – definition, indicators.3 min · 14 cards
6. Health determinants. Health indicators.5 min · 15 cards
7. Medical demography – history, classification. Demographic transition model.6 min · 14 cards
8. Demographic policy. Family planning.5 min · 15 cards
9. Medical demography. Population dynamics. Migration: types and health aspects.3 min · 15 cards
10. Medical demography. Population dynamics. Natural and vital events. Indicators.8 min · 15 cards
11. Factors for birth and mortality. Causes of death. Birth and death registrations. Indicators.5 min · 15 cards
12. Infant mortality. Causes, dynamics. Medico – social prophylaxis. Indicators.4 min · 15 cards
13. Physical development and activity. Acceleration.2 min · 14 cards
14. Risk factors, causality. Bradford Hill’s criteria.6 min · 14 cards
15. Measurement of diseases and exposure. Risk assessment.3 min · 16 cards
16. Incidence and prevalence - definition. Methods of collecting morbidity statistics. Indicators. International classification of diseases (ICD).8 min · 16 cards
17. Epidemiology – definition, tasks, methods. Natural history of the disease.6 min · 15 cards
18. Epidemiological studies – observational studies.6 min · 14 cards
19. Epidemiological studies – experimental studies.4 min · 16 cards
20. Burden of disease – medico-social aspects.6 min · 14 cards
21. Health policy – structure, factors, principles. Health in all policies.6 min · 14 cards
22. Health care systems – types.9 min · 12 cards
23. Health policy and reforms in Bulgaria. National health strategy.6 min · 16 cards
24. Health legislation in Bulgaria. Health act.7 min · 15 cards
25. Health legislation in Bulgaria. Health Care Establishments Act.6 min · 13 cards
26. Health legislation in Bulgaria. Health Insurance Act.8 min · 16 cards
27. International collaboration for Global Public Health. WHO. Programs and priorities.7 min · 15 cards
28. European Union health policy. Programs and priorities.7 min · 16 cards
29. Health culture and health behavior. Humanitarian Non-governmental organizations.5 min · 14 cards
30. Health education - basic principles, methods and forms.4 min · 15 cards
31. Methods of sociological investigation in medicine. Questionnaire. Observation.8 min · 16 cards
32. Methods of sociological investigation in medicine. Interview. Documents review.6 min · 15 cards
33. Social history of the patient. Family anamnesis.3 min · 14 cards
34. Family health care. Physician’s role in problem families (single parents, cohabitation, concubine, divorced parents, families with chronic or terminal patients).3 min · 15 cards
35. Physician’s role for family planning. Prophylaxis of congenital diseases, prenatal and postnatal screening.11 min · 15 cards
36. Occupational medicine – definition, principles, organization in Bulgaria.4 min · 15 cards
37. Expert evaluation of temporary incapacity for work. Indicators.4 min · 15 cards
38. Expert evaluation of permanent incapacity for work. Territorial expert medical commission.3 min · 16 cards
39. Primary health care. Outpatient care. General Practitioner’s functions. Hospital at home.7 min · 14 cards
40. Preventive medicine - definition and objectives. Primary, secondary, and tertiary prophylaxis. Health promotion.4 min · 15 cards
41. Dispensary method - types and patient groups. Indicators.5 min · 14 cards
42. Hospital care. Functions, structure, and organization. Indicators.6 min · 14 cards
43. Hospitalization: reasons and types of hospitalization. Rights and obligations of hospitalized patients. Indicators.4 min · 15 cards
44. Hospitalized patients. Quality of hospital health care. Patient and his family experience of the hospitalization. Patient discharge planning.5 min · 13 cards
45. Medico-social issues of women and maternal care. Maternal Health Programme of National Health Insurance Fund.19 min · 14 cards
46. Medico - social issues of childcare. Child health Programme of National Health Insurance Fund.5 min · 17 cards
47. Medico - social issues of maternal and child health care – abortions, infertility, single mothers, unwanted child, children with chronic diseases, adopted children and medical treatment of children without physician consultation. Sexual education.5 min · 15 cards
48. Medico – social issues of adolescence – acceleration problems, alcoholism, and drugs. Prevention of the most common diseases till 18 years of age.4 min · 14 cards
49. Health management – basic principles. Management of human resources.7 min · 15 cards
50. Health management. Governance. Management of financial resources. Management of the organizational change.9 min · 15 cards
51. Public health planning, economy, and marketing.7 min · 14 cards

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