Medical and Healthcare Law 3800-BE-PMOZ
The primary goal of the lecture is to provide students with knowledge of basic concepts, principles and institutions of Polish and European medical law and biotechnology law. Also, the lecture is aimed at developing students’ skills necessary to identify and analyze legal problems in contemporary biomedicine.
The course covers following topics:
I. INTRODUCTION TO LAW
(Nature and functions of law. Language of law. Legal norms and legal provisions. Legal system. Branches of law. Sources of law. Legislation process. Interpretation of law. Application and enforcement of law. Legal relations. Legal subjects. Legal acts)
II. INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL LAW
(Nature, scope and sources of medical law. Constitutional basis for medical law. European standards of medical law. Organization of health-care system. Medical professions. Patient’s rights)
III. PATIENT’S RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
(Right to healthcare. Consent to treatment. Non-consensual treatment. Medical confidentiality. Medical records. Protection of personal data. Medical ethics and professional liability of medical professionals. Civil liability of healthcare providers. Criminal liability of healthcare providers)
IV. LAW AND MODERN MEDICINE & BIOTECHNOLOGY
(End-of-life legal issues. Diagnosis of death. Legal status of human dead body and its parts. Transplantation law. Mental health protection. Legal status and legal protection of human embryos and fetuses. Reproductive rights. Law and genetics. Non-therapeutic interventions: cosmetic surgeries, transsexual treatment. Biomedical research involving humans. Basics of pharmaceutical law. Intellectual property law. Biotechnological patents)
Type of course
Course coordinators
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Learning outcomes
At the end of the course student:
KNOWLEDGE
-- has knowledge and understanding of basic concepts and institutions of Polish and European medical law and biotechnology law;
-- has knowledge of basic principles of law enactment, interpretation, application and enforcement;
-- has well-structured knowledge of national and European hard-law and soft-law regulations on medicine, including medical professions and patient’s rights, and biotechnology;
-- is acquainted with intellectual property law and understand the need of intellectual property management;
-- understands the relations between bioethics and biomedical law;
-- understands the importance of legal factors in the practice and development of medicine and biosciences;
SKILLS
-- identifies, interprets and analyses typical legal problems that appear in medicine and biotechnology;
-- applies legal and deontological norms to solve simple legal cases/problems;
SOCIAL COMPETENCES
-- appreciates the importance and value of legal reflection for the practice and development of biomedicine, and for development of social order based on respect for human dignity and fundamental human rights
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