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MPH5307

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 26 April 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational UnitDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
OfferedMonash Online Teaching Period 5 2015 (Online)
Coordinator(s)Associate Professor Bebe Loff and Mrs Elizabeth Kennedy

Synopsis

Review of legal principles related to health care; including common law principles and statutes. The focus is on key areas of medical and health law such as negligence, consent, privacy of health information, clinical research, abortion, euthanasia, mental health, infectious diseases, health complaints, ethics and human rights and law for health systems.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Describe the sources of law
  2. Describe aspects of law impacting upon the delivery of health services
  3. Apply key areas of medical law to health management; 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. Comprehend other areas of law and legal policy as they apply to the health care system including restrictive trade practices, contract law, professional registration and malpractice, drugs and poisons law and therapeutic goods law
  5. Examine the means of resolving consumer dissatisfaction.

Assessment

Response to 6 weekly forum discussion topics (45%)
Written essay (1,500 words) (25%)
Written essay (2,000 words) (30%)

Workload requirements

Off-campus: 20 hours per week for 6 weeks.

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Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Bebe Loff and Mrs Elizabeth Kennedy

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Public health

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in courses 4528 or 4529.