Healthcare Law & Ethics LLM
60 monthsProgramme duration
2,785 GBPTuition Fee/year
Jan, SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Law and Legal Studies
Degree
LLM
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
Online
This Healthcare Law & Ethics LLM course will help you to gain an understanding of how law and ethics apply to the practice of healthcare professionals. It will give you an appreciation of relevant legal and ethical issues, terminology, sources of law and the ways in which law and ethics work in practice. You can study at a time and place of your own choosing and at a pace that is comfortable for you. Most of our graduates have completed their studies while working full-time as healthcare professionals.
Some of the topics which are explored in this course include legal and ethical issues relating to:
- patients’ consent to treatment
- clinical negligence
- patient confidentiality
- abortion
- genetic selection
- maternal-fetal conflict
- withdrawing and withholding treatment
- euthanasia and assisted suicide
- pharmaceutical product liability
- the regulation of clinical drug trials
- patient capacity and competence
- the treatment of children
- research and the incompetent patient
- organ donation and
- treating the mentally ill patient
Programme overview
Main Subject
Law and Legal Studies
Degree
LLM
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
Online
This Healthcare Law & Ethics LLM course will help you to gain an understanding of how law and ethics apply to the practice of healthcare professionals. It will give you an appreciation of relevant legal and ethical issues, terminology, sources of law and the ways in which law and ethics work in practice. You can study at a time and place of your own choosing and at a pace that is comfortable for you. Most of our graduates have completed their studies while working full-time as healthcare professionals.
Some of the topics which are explored in this course include legal and ethical issues relating to:
- patients’ consent to treatment
- clinical negligence
- patient confidentiality
- abortion
- genetic selection
- maternal-fetal conflict
- withdrawing and withholding treatment
- euthanasia and assisted suicide
- pharmaceutical product liability
- the regulation of clinical drug trials
- patient capacity and competence
- the treatment of children
- research and the incompetent patient
- organ donation and
- treating the mentally ill patient
Admission Requirements
You should have: medical or dental degree
OR
an upper second class degree or above in another health care subject (including nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy) with at least 2 years post-qualifying experience
OR
a minimum of 5 years' practice in a healthcare profession
PLUS
two academic references, or two references from colleagues or employers
- Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
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