Medico-Legal Problems

CSEP60211 Medico-Legal Problems 30 Semester 1 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Sarah Devaney Unit coordinator Caroline Hoyle Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 15.0 Core Lectures - 20 hours: 1. Law and Healthcare: A Troubled Relationship 2. Autonomy and Consent 3. Capacity, Consent and Best Interests 4. Confidentiality and Privacy 5. Clinical Negligence (I) 6. Clinical Negligence (II) 7. Alternative Redress 8. Human Rights and Healthcare 9. Access to Healthcare Treatment 10. Criminalising Medicine and the Regulation of Health Professionals Consolidation and skills sessions – 10 hours These sessions (one hour per week) will consist of a combination of:1. Seminar/workshop sessions for which students will pre-prepare to engage in joint discussions and analysis in class. These will provide a more interactive forum within which ideas, observations and opinions can be exchanged (8 hours); and2. Critical analysis and legal essay writing skills sessions. These will highlight expectations relating to approaches and enable students from whatever background discipline and/or jurisdiction to understand the requirements for assessment in this course (2 hours). Additionally the students will be expected to undertake private study, approximately as follows: Preparation for classes and seminars - 70 hours Research and directed reading - 120 hours Preparation of assignments - 80 Total = 300 hours. Core Lectures - 20 hours: 1. Law and Healthcare: A Troubled Relationship 2. Autonomy and Consent 3. Capacity, Consent and Best Interests 4. Confidentiality and Privacy 5. Clinical Negligence (I) 6. Clinical Negligence (II) 7. Alternative Redress 8. Human Rights and Healthcare 9. Access to Healthcare Treatment 10. Criminalising Medicine and the Regulation of Health Professionals Consolidation and skills sessions – 10 hours These sessions (one hour per week) will consist of a combination of:1. Seminar/workshop sessions for which students will pre-prepare to engage in joint discussions and analysis in class. These will provide a more interactive forum within which ideas, observations and opinions can be exchanged (8 hours); and2. Critical analysis and legal essay writing skills sessions. These will highlight expectations relating to approaches and enable students from whatever background discipline and/or jurisdiction to understand the requirements for assessment in this course (2 hours). Additionally the students will be expected to undertake private study, approximately as follows: Preparation for classes and seminars - 70 hours Research and directed reading - 120 hours Preparation of assignments - 80 Total = 300 hours. The aims of the course unit are: To provide a detailed and advanced understanding of the law relating to the field of healthcare and its relationship to bioethics; To enable students to understand the impact of the law on patients, practitioners and society; To provide a sound base of knowledge and skills for students to apply in the remainder of the postgraduate programme; To develop students' capacity for critical analysis and logical thinking and to encourage independent learning and commitment to scholarship; To develop a general range of transferable and generic skills in problem-solving and reasoning, computer literacy, time management and teamwork, written and oral communication. On successful completion of this course unit, students will be able to: Demonstrate a detailed and advanced knowledge of the applicable law in relation to the topics covered in the teaching sessions; Understand the implications of the law for the provision of healthcare; Demonstrate a familiarity with the arguments posed by academic commentators in the area; Reflect on and critically analyse the relevant law; Engage with and evaluate the arguments made by policy makers and academic commentators about the relevant law; Formulate logical and clear arguments on their own position in relation to the law and to the positions of other commentators; Undertake independent legal research using a variety of sources; Write critically and analytically on a given aspect of the relevant law. This core unit of the Programme consists of innovative and varied teaching methods aimed at achieving a variety of teaching and learning outcomes. Core lectures will inform students about the current law and debates in the area. They will be research-led sessions run by members of staff with active research interests in these topics and will provide a starting point for students' own study. Research-in-progress lectures will expose students even more acutely to existing and emerging debates in a given area and provide the opportunity for them to engage with, and contribute to such debates. This will highlight the central role of the students as participants in an active and thriving academic community. The topics of these lectures will be dependent on current developments and the research projects being undertaken by staff at the relevant time and thus will change from year to year. Seminars will allow the students to work in small groups to discuss queries they have relating to the law and to develop their analytical and reasoning skills. Journal club sessions will allow the students to develop legal research skills, to gain a greater in-depth knowledge of given topics, and to engage in discussion and debate with their colleagues. 0% N M. Brazier, E. Cave and R. Heywood, Medicine, Patients and the Law [7th edition] (Manchester University Press, 2023)  ORA.M. Farrell and E. Dove, Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics [12th edition] (Oxford University Press, 2023) The following cases and materials book is recommended as an additional useful source:E. Jackson, Medical Law: Text, Cases and Materials, [6th edition] (Oxford University Press, 2022). Further detailed reading lists will be given in relation to each lecture. 0 0 0 Information Formative feedback within this course unit is provided in class presentations and discussions, in both larger workshop and smaller seminar settings. Feedback on assessed written work is provided through comprehensive written feedback giving both broad indications and detailed comments on strengths, weaknesses and areas for improvement.  General whole cohort feedback on written assignments will also be published post-assessment on Blackboard. This is a compulsory course unit for campus-based Health Care Ethics & Law programmes in The Department of Law.Timetable See CSEP Campus Based timetable