City Colleges Diploma In Medical Law 

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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