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LAW5133
Faculty of Law
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
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| Level | Undergraduate |
| Faculty | Faculty of Law |
| Offered | Clayton First semester 2014 (Day) |
Synopsis
Topics include: practising law and practising medicine.; principles governing clinical medical practice; the foundation of medical ethics; the relationship between medicine and allied health professions; the regulation of the medical profession; doctors, patients and the law and alternatives to litigation; medical negligence and consent; rights to refuse medical treatment, and competence and incompetence in law and medicine; medical confidentiality; law and psychiatry; the body as property; medical research: volunteers, institutional ethics committees and the law; medical treatment and the end of life; the beginnings of life: novel birth technologies and abortion; doctors in court.
Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should have:
- acquired an understanding and appreciation of the rationales and roles of the legal and medical practice and structure
- developed the ability to critically analyse and evaluate a number of major issues and concepts fundamental to the doctor - patient relationship
- practiced and improved their research and writing skills as well as their skills in class/group participation and learning to understand , share and accept differing points of view.
Assessment
Research Paper (1,500 words): 30% and examination (2 hours writing time plus 30 minutes reading time): 70% OR examination (3 hours writing plus 30 minutes reading time): 100%
Chief examiner(s)
Workload requirements
Three hours of lectures per week
Prerequisites
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