Postgraduate Course: Medical Ethics/ Medicine and The Law (GMED11062)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Clinical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course aims to ensure that the candidate have a good grounding in medical ethics and the common medico-legal issues that are likely to be encountered in the adult general medical setting. Consent to medical treatment, refusal of medical treatment, withholding and withdrawing care, medical negligence, patient confidentiality, human rights, mental capacity and ethics surrounding mental health will be discussed. Ethical aspects of social care of elderly patients, end of life care and ethics of research will also be covered. Because of the international studentship of the course, discussion will refer to UK law, but tends towards philosophical principles than specific UK legislation.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
At the completion of the course, the student should have an understanding of the legal, philosophical and ethical framework relating to contemporary medical issues, illustrated with relevant case studies to guide their clinical practice. The student should: ¿Understand how ethical principles and medical legislation vary across the world and how international human rights legislation may impact on medical practice ¿Understand the process and implications of consent ¿Understand the implications of withholding or withdrawing medical treatment ¿Understand the meaning of medical negligence ¿Understand the principles surrounding patient confidentiality ¿Understand the principle surrounding mental health issues and incapacity ¿Understand the ethical issues arising in social care of the elderly and in end of life decisions Gain an awareness of ethical principles governing medical research