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| Postgraduate |
(MED)
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Leader: Ms Elizabeth Kennedy
Offered:
MMS-ALFRED Second semester 2006 (Day)
MMS-ALFRED Second semester 2006 (OCL)
Synopsis: Review of legal and risk management principles related to health care setting. Examination of sources and mechanisms of law impacting on health care delivery. Sources of Victorian and Commonwealth law and legal systems. Key areas of medical law such as negligence, informed consent, confidentiality, clinical research, abortion, euthanasia, health services law, mental health law, infectious diseases law, health complaints law and coronial law. Includes study of non-medical law impacting upon provision of health services and how to develop a legal argument.
Objectives: At the end of this unit, students should be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the sources of law and of the legal systems of Victoria and the Commonwealth. 2. Describe the breadth of law impacting upon the delivery of health services. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of some key areas of medical law, such as negligence, informed consent, confidentiality, clinical research, abortion, euthanasia, health service law, mental health law, infectious diseases law, health complaints law and coronial law. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of other areas of law and legal policy as they apply to the health care system including trade practices, contract law, professional registration and malpractice, drugs and poisons law and therapeutic goods law. 5. Examine the current means of resolving consumer dissatisfaction and debate the merits of alternative methods. 6. Describe current risk management processes and their implementation. 7. Demonstrate basic skills in legal argument, and 8. Demonstrate basic skills in working in a team for the advancement of a legal argument.
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Assessment: Web-based tasks (50%) + Written assignments (50%)
Contact Hours: 15 contact hours over 2 days
Off-campus attendance requirements: 15 contact hours over 2 days