Distance Learning Courses in Medical Law and Ethics

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Course syllabus Medical Law and Ethics

1. Introduction to Law and Medical Ethics
The aim of this module is to explore the critical relationship between the law, and the practice of medicine, in order to set the groundwork for discussions in the more topic-specific modules.

2. Consent to Medical Treatment
This module looks at the variety of conditions, criteria and limitations relating to consent.

3. Refusal of Medical Treatment
That patients exercise 'rights' to autonomy when providing consent only makes sense if there is a corresponding right to refuse.

4. Withholding and Withdrawing Care
This module examines 'medical futility' and the 'duty to prolong life' and the complex issues surrounding euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (PAS).

5. Medical Negligence
This module focuses on the role of the law of negligence in the medical context, essentially as a means of providing compensation to patients who have suffered a 'legally-recognized harm'.

6. Patient Confidentiality
In this module, you will examine the principles that form the content of the duty of confidentiality, when the duty arises, and circumstances which constitute exceptions.

7. Human Rights and Medical Practice
In this module, you will look at reasons why this legislative programme has come about, issues of access to health care, and the role of human rights.

8. Research and Ethical Approval
In this module, you will look at how attitudes, conditions, standards and safeguards have developed and changed over the last hundred years.

9. Mental Capacity and Mental Health
Alongside general issues of mental health law, two particularly significant areas of relevance to the medical profession that arise from the new legislation will be explored in this module.

10. Genetics, Reproduction and the Law
In this module, various approaches to assisted reproduction are explored, as are the 'reproductive torts' - forms of negligence action related to issues of reproductive counseling.

Fees

Single module £85

7 module course £560 (Includes free copy of Mason and McCall-Smith's Law and Medical Ethics)

10 module course £685 (Includes free copy of Mason and McCall-Smith's Law and Medical Ethics)

Important Dates

The autumn program will run from 22 September to the 28 November 2014 and the winter program will run from 19 January to the 27 March 2015.

Contact detail

School of Law
University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, United Kingdom ‎
+44 131 650 2008

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