Course Description
Focuses on the relationship between health care providers and patients. Topics include: the treatment relationship, professional liability, licensing, access to care (including EMTALA), quality of care, privacy and confidentiality (including HIPAA), and informed consent.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate law students will not be doing any extra work beyond
that required of the Juris Doctor students. J.D. students are
post-baccalaureate students and the workload expected of them
is the same workload expected of post-baccalaureate graduate
students. Law students are professional students, not
undergraduate students. Graduate law students are primarily
international lawyers seeking expertise in the American legal
system. This expertise is gained through exposure to Juris
Doctor courses.
Athena Title
Law and Medicine
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To familiarize students with the range of legal and policy issues affecting the healthcare provider-patient relationship.
Topical Outline
1. Doctor-patient relationship 2. Professional liability 2. Licensing 3. Access to care 4. Regulating quality of care 5. Privacy and confidentiality 6. Informed consent 7. Comparative perspective on other healthcare systems