The City Colleges Diploma in Medical Law commences Monday, 25th April 2022 running one evening per week from 6.30pm-9.30pm over 10 weeks.
The Diploma is taught by Conor Duff, LLB, BL, Dean of Law at City College.
Weekly Breakdown Of City Colleges Diploma In Medical Law
Week 1 Introduction to the course and principles of clinical negligence
- The field of medical law
- Medical law, medical ethics and bio-ethics
- History of medical law and legal medicine
Week 2 Regulation of healthcare professionals
- The scope of statutory professional regulation
- Structures and functions of medical bodies
- Disciplinary procedures and medical bodies
Week 3 Medical records and access to records
- Clinical record-keeping
- Access to an ownership of notes
- Introduction to data protection law
- Retention of records
- Duty of confidentiality
Week 4 Consent to medical treatment
- Meaning of consent
- Consequences of acting without consent
- Elements of consent
- Practicalities of consent
- Capacity and decision-making
- Minors
- Treatment refusal
Week 5 Expert evidence and court proceedings
- Issuing proceedings
- Standard of proof
- Discovery and civil litigation procedure as it pertains to medical negligence litigation
- Damages
- Introduction to expert evidence
- Who is an expert?
- Professional negligence claims and the need for expert reporting
Week 6 Mental health law
- Voluntary admission of mental health patients
- Involuntary admission of adults
- Treatment of the psychiatric patient
- Human rights law and mental health
- Involuntary psychiatrict treatement and detention
- Mental Health Act 2001
Week 7 Assisted Human Reproduction
- Introduction to Assisted Human Reproduction
- Aspects of the regulatory environment
- Regulating himan embryos
- Donor-assisted human reproduction
- Surrogacy and the law
Week 8 End of life
- The withdrawl of treatment
- DNR (do not attempt resusciatiation) Orders
- Planning for end of life
- Powers of Attorney
- Euthanasia and assisted suicide
Week 9 Clinical research on humans and animals
- Clinical research
- Ethical aspects of clinical research on human subjects
- Regulation of clinical research
- Clinicial research on animal subjexts
- Data protection law and clinical research
Week 10 Guest lecture
Mode of delivery: Asynchronous
30 hours over a period of ten weeks
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