Subject areas:

• Bioethics
• Theology (taught in Toruń)
• Theology (taught in Peplin)

Bioethics – Postgraduate diploma

Advances in medicine and biomedicine create new challenges. We would like to face them offering a postgraduate diploma in the field of bioethics. The course develops competence in the field of ethics for:

• Medical staff
• Hospital chaplains
• Members of Hospital Ethics Committees
• Journalists interested in the issue of bioethics

Valuable skills of applying the knowledge of ethics and bioethics to principal biomedical questions concerning:

• the beginning of human life
  (genetics, eugenics, physiology of human procreation, in vitro fertilisation, abortion, contraception, preimplantation and prenatal diagnostics)

• human life
  (organ transplantation and donation, medical experiments, killing a person in self-defence,  just war theory, death penalty and suicide)

• the end of human life
  (the theology of illness, death, suffering, dying, terminal illness, controversies concerning the criteria of the determination of death, palliative medicine, hospice and palliative care, psychology of suffering)

We collaborate closely with well-known academic centres in Poland:

• Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz (Prof. Aleksander Araszkiewicz, Prof. Zbigniew Włodarczyk)
• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Prof. Krystyna de  Walden-Gałuszko; Rev. Prof. Marian Machinek)
• Medical University of Białystok (Prof. Alina Midro)
• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Rev. Prof. Paweł Bortkiewicz)
• Wrocław University (Dr Beata Salomon)
• Warsaw University (Prof. Marek Królikowski)
• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Rev. Bp. Prof. Józef Wróbel) 

Postgraduate diploma in theology encompasses two stages:

• ad licentiam cycle (4 semesters)
• ad lauream cycle (2 semesters)

Subject areas:

Biblical Theology

Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology

Moral Theology and Sprituality

Pastoral Theology ( Practical Theology, Catechetics, Liturgics, Homiletics, Canon Law)