INTRODUCTION TO

BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES STREAM

Saroj Jayasinghe
Chairperson BSS and Professor in the Department
of Clinical Medicine

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Why have a Behavioural Sciences
Stream?

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BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES STREAM

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 BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES STREAM
We want to prevent you to become a better
human being........

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...but we do not succeed all the time!

www.youthedesigner.com

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How does the Behavioural
Sciences Stream prevent you from
becoming a ?

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 Professionalism

Ethics

Communication
Skills

Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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 How to be
Professionalism
professional

How to be moral or
Ethics
be correct...

How to communicate Communication

Skills
How does
Basic
behaviour affect
Behavioural
health and illness
Sciences
affect behaviour

How to Personal
study development
and
adjust

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 How to study
and adjust to
the Faculty

Personal
development

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 Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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 How does
behaviour affect
health and illness
affect behaviour

Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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illness behaviour

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HOW DOES ILLNESS AFFECT A
HUMAN BEINGS BEHAVIOUR?
HENRY JAYASENA
6 July 1931 - 11 November 2009

The entire treatment process took

around one and a half years. On his
personal experience and suffering he
had written in detail a book titled "Balha
Gilano - the story of a cancer patient"
purely to educate the masses.
 It was devastating, like a thunder bolt. Someone one doesn't
associate oneself with things like that. It is always the other
person. But when you become the patient - your whole world
crashes and mine did. I knew would have to be inactive for a
long time." Then on 7 May 1999 began the unenviable
pilgrimages to the Maharagama Cancer Hospital for
chemotherapy and radiotherapy. They ended on 25th August
2000. It was a nasty experience. The chemotherapy kills your
appetite. It cracks your tongue, swells your lips and makes
your throat feel raw. My finger and toe nails turned purple,
and my skin an awful purplish colour
 Communication
Skills

Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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How to communicate
with patients,
relatives, the
community, the
public, colleagues
Communication
Skills

Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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COMMUNICATION

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COMMUNICATION

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 Ethics

Communication
Skills

Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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 How to be moral or
be correct or be
humane
Ethics

Communication
Skills

Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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 PRINCIPLES OF ETHICS
Autonomy respect the patient as a human
being
Beneficence benefit the patient and Non-
maleficence do no harm
Justice be fair

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 AUTONOMY:
KEEPING INFORMATION
CONFIDENTIAL

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 BENEFICENCE:
SHOULD DOCTORS STRIKE?

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BENEFICENCE: SHOULD DOCTORS BE
INFLUENCED BY THE DRUG INDUSTRY?

The Daily Mail (UK)

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 JUSTICE

Is it fair to have information on drugs

only in English?

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 Professionalism

Ethics

Communication
Skills

Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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 Become a
Professionalism
professional

Ethics

Communication
Skills

Behavioural
Sciences

Personal
development

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SUMMARY

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 How to be
Professionalism
professional

How to be moral or
Ethics
be correct...

How to communicate Communication

Skills
How does
Basic
behaviour affect
Behavioural
health and illness
Sciences
affect behaviour

How to Personal
study development
and
adjust

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