Bioethics and medical law — in the LEK question base

The Polish Code of Medical Ethics, consent, medical confidentiality, patients rights, medical experiments, forensic medicine.

Questions in base
111
Share of base
4.5%
Roughly on the paper
~6

The "on the paper" figure assumes the 140 questions drawn from the base are distributed in proportion to its composition. CEM does not publish per-field quotas, so treat it as an order of magnitude rather than a promise.

Required reading — bioethics and medical law

The list CEM publishes for this field. Questions are written from these titles, so where a lecture and a listed textbook disagree, the textbook decides.

They appear here in Polish, exactly as CEM lists them — these are the specific editions that count, and most have no English translation. That is not an oversight on our part; it is the central practical problem of sitting this exam in English.

  1. 01 Paweł Łuków, Tomasz Pasierski — Etyka medyczna z elementami filozofii, PZWL, 2014
  2. 02 Joanna Różyńska, Weronika Chańska (red.) — Bioetyka, Wolters Kluwer, 2013
  3. 03 Kodeks Etyki Lekarskiej
  4. 04 Konwencja o ochronie praw człowieka i godności istoty ludzkiej (Oviedo, 1996)
  5. 05 Deklaracja Helsińska WMA (2013), Tokijska WMA (2016), Madrycka WPA (2011)
  6. 06 Mirosław Nesterowicz — Prawo medyczne, wyd. 10, 2013
  7. 07 Rafał Kubiak — Prawo medyczne, wyd. 4, 2021
  8. 08 Leszek Bosek (red.) — Ustawa o prawach pacjenta i Rzeczniku Praw Pacjenta. Komentarz, 2020
  9. 09 Eleonora Zielińska (red.) — Ustawa o zawodach lekarza i lekarza dentysty. Komentarz, 2022
  10. 10 Justyna Zajdel-Całkowska — Prawo medyczne, 2019
  11. 11 Grzegorz Teresiński (red.) — Medycyna sądowa, t. I–III, PZWL, 2019–2021

Source: the CEM reading list . As at August 2026 — check before your session in case CEM has revised it.

How to get through this field

111 questions is a finite, countable set — at twenty a day you are through it in 6 days. The difficulty is not the volume. It is that the CEM listing gives you the questions and nothing else: no answer key, no explanation and no indication which of the books above the answer came from.

In our bank every question in this field carries an explanation and a citation to its source. Instead of memorising a letter you see why the other four options are wrong — and that is the part which transfers to the 60 unpublished questions you cannot prepare for in advance. The English edition is in progress; these pages come first.