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Study Course Description
Law in Medicine
Course Code
SVUEK_017
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Public and environmental health
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Public Health
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Anita Villeruša
Structure Unit Manager
Anda Ķīvīte-Urtāne
Structural Unit
Institute of Public Health
Contacts
Riga, 9 Kronvalda boulevard, svek@rsu.lv, +371 67338307
About Study Course
Objective
The studies of medical law offers to take a look at the medical rights, their origin and application. Course includes overview of international and national medical legal systems, including medical legal systems of the Latvia and the European Union. During the course students are creating a deeper understanding of the medical law, the scope of its principles, their origin, impact on health care, and the role of medical law in international and national law. With the participation in the lectures and writing own-initiative reports, students are involved in up-to-date medical law problems for the purpose of exploring and finding solutions.
Preliminary Knowledge
Theory of law, health care organization, public health, ethics.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Student will know to: find way around medical law regulatory enactments; speak about the place and role of medical law in the legal system, describe development of the medical law and link it with other branches of legal science; list of basic principles of patients’ rights; present and describe legal principles of the health care organization and the right to health care, the rights of health care workers, regulation of certain areas by medical law.
Skills
1.Students will be able to: identify the relevant regulatory enactments to solve certain legal problems in the area of the medical law; discuss different court judgements in medicine and health care and in argued manner expressing their views.
Competences
1.Being able to offer solutions of actual medical rights and medical ethics issues and reasonably justify the solutions.
Assessment
Individual work
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Individual work |
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1. Independent studies of laws and regulations.
2. Independently written and presented report on one of current medical law problems in Latvia.
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Examination
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1.
Examination |
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Independently conducted and presented overview to the audience of one up-to-date medical legal problems in Latvia. Written exam at the end of the course.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Modality
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Location
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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1
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Topics
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The role and place of Medical law in the legal system. Medical law and the link with other law sciences. Future of Medical law.
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Lecture
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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1
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Topics
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Medical law and bioethics. National and international sources of Medical law.
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Lecture
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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1
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Topics
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Origin and basic principles of patients' rights. The provision of information to the patient. Patient informed consent.
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Lecture
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On site
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Auditorium
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1
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Topics
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Organization of health care. The right to health care.
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Auditorium
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4
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Topics
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Rights and duties of an individual and the state. State guaranteed health care. Emergency medical assistance. Epidemiological safety.
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Class/Seminar
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Auditorium
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4
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Topics
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Health care service regulation and control. Pharmacy and health care. Regulation of certain areas by Medical law. Corruption and fraud in health system.
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Auditorium
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4
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Topics
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Health care workers' rights. Medical practitioners. Pharmacists. Other parties. Regulated professions in health care.
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Class/Seminar
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Location
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On site
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Auditorium
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4
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Topics
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Registration and certification of health care professional. Professional activity and responsibility.
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4
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Topics
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Reproductive rights. Birth control. Tissue and organ transplantation legal and ethical problems. Euthanasia. Cloning.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
24 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Medicīnas tiesības. Autoru kolektīvs S. Ašnevicas-Slokenbergas zinātniskajā redakcijā. Tiesu namu aģentūra, Rīga, 2015, 798 lpp.
2.
Andriew Grubb, Judith Laing. Principles of Medical Law. Oxford University Press, New York, 2017, 1191 p.
3.
Normatīvie akti (LR Satversme, Ārstniecības likums, Likums “Par prakses ārstiem”, Epidemioloģiskās drošības likums Farmācijas likums, Likums Par miruša cilvēka ķermeņa aizsardzību un cilvēka audu un orgānu izmantošanu medicīnā, Seksuālās un reproduktīvās veselības likums, Cilvēka genoma izpētes likums, likums „Par reglamentētajām profesijām un profesionālās kvalifikācijas atzīšanu”, Fizisko personu datu aizsardzības likums, Administratīvā procesa likums, Darba likums, Civillikums, Civilprocesa likums, Krimināllikums, Kriminālprocesa likums). Starptautisko tiesību akti. Eiropas Savienības tiesību akti.
4.
Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students:
5.
Andriew Grubb, Judith Laing. Principles of Medical Law. Oxford University Press, New York, 2017, 1191 p.
Additional Reading
1.
G. Ķilkuts, S. Mežinska, I. Neiders, V. Sīle, V. Sīlis. Biomedicīnas ētika: teorija un prakse. Rīga, Rīgas Stradiņa Universitāte, 2006, 226. lpp.
2.
Tony Hope, Julian Savulescu, Judith Hendrick. Medical Ethics and Law. Elsvier, 2019, 270p.
3.
Steven H. Miles. The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2005, 232 p.
4.
Theodore H. Tulchinsky, Elena A. Varavikova. The New public health. Academic Press, 2014.
5.
Everyday Medical Ethics and Law. BMA Medical Ethics Department; Bma Medical Ethics Department. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013 (ProQuestEbookCentral)
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Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students:
7.
Tony Hope, Julian Savulescu, Judith Hendrick. Medical Ethics and Law. Elsvier, 2019, 270p.
8.
Steven H. Miles. The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2005, 232 p.
9.
Theodore H. Tulchinsky, Elena A. Varavikova. The New public health. Academic Press, 2014.
10.
Everyday Medical Ethics and Law. BMA Medical Ethics Department; Bma Medical Ethics Department. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013 (ProQuestEbookCentral)
Other Information Sources
1.
PVO rekomendācijas, deklarācijas un rezolūcijas (piemēram, Deklarācija par pacienta tiesību veicināšanu Eiropā)
2.
PVO Pasaules veselības likumdošanas krājums - pieejams angļu un franču valodās
3.
EP (http://www.coecidriga.lv/ep/) un ES (http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/index_lv.htm) deklarācijas, rekomendācijas un rezolūcijas
4.
Latvijas Republikas, Eiropas Kopienu tiesas (http://europa.eu/institutions/inst/justice/index_lv.htm) un Eiropas cilvēktiesību tiesas (http://echr.coe.int) spriedumi
5.
Pasaules Medicīnas tiesību asociācija (World Association on Medical Law)