Law and Medical Ethics, Short Course | Part time online | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom
5 months
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920 GBP/full
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About

This self-study online course for healthcare and allied professionals provides an overview of the main medico-legal concepts and issues in healthcare today.

Overview

This flexible online programme of short modules covers the fundamental aspects of contemporary health care and law for health care and allied professionals.

This programme aims to provide you with an overview of the main medico-legal concepts and issues in the practice of modern healthcare. It addresses the fundamental questions affecting health care and allied professionals today:

  • What is legally valid consent?
  • What standards of care does the law expect of your profession?
  • When is it lawful to withhold or withdraw medical treatment?
  • When is it permissible to breach patient confidentiality?
  • How have human rights changed the face of modern medicine?

The programme consists of 10 individual modules. The full programme of 10 modules, or the slightly shorter seven-module programme, will give you a comprehensive overview. If you prefer to focus on an area that reflects specific professional and personal interests, you have the option of studying an individual module or a combination of single modules.

Programme Structure

This programme of modules is designed to be taken online on a 'self-access' basis. This means that you can access course materials whenever you like, and work through the materials at your own pace.

You can log in to the course 24/7, so you can fit your learning around work and personal commitments.

Each module contains interactive quiz material, providing feedback so that you can check your progress and deepen your understanding. These quizzes can be taken as often as wished so that you can revisit specific areas of interest if desired.

To further aid your practice, each module has a ‘Take-home Toolkit’ which is a document that you can print off or download for future reference.

Each module should take between 5 and 10 hours to complete and you will have two weeks to complete each module. This allows you to go back through each module and concentrate on particular topics.

Certificate

After completing your module(s) please contact our online learning team who will be able to issue you with an e-certificate of completion on evidence that you have successfully completed all of the interactive quizzes for the modules which you have registered for.

Professional accreditation bodies may impose requirements over and above those of the School of Law.

Audience

This course is designed for healthcare and allied professionals.

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 5 months

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details

Students can start this course at any time.

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

This self-study online course is aimed at healthcare and allied professionals.

Tuition Fee

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  • International

    920 GBP/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 920 GBP for the full programme during 5 months.
  • National

    920 GBP/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 920 GBP for the full programme during 5 months.
  • Ten modules (full programme): £920
  • Seven modules: £645
  • Single module: £115

Funding

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