Courses - Masters Degree


Master of Health and Medical Law 507

Overview

Melbourne Law School’s health and medical law program is open to lawyers in the medico-legal area and to doctors and other health professionals and administrators. Two new subjects will be offered in 2012. Registration of Health Professionals will provide an understanding of how the new National Registration and Accreditation Scheme has centralised the disciplinary process, now that the registration bodies are acting under delegated authority from the federal board. The other new subject, Proprietary Interests in Human Tissue, will cover the ethical and legal issues surrounding the use of body parts.

Objectives and Skills

The graduate programs in health and medical law focus on:

  • Relevant aspects of health and medical law
  • The theoretical framework surrounding health and medical law, and contemporary ethical and theoretical issues
  • The law concerning the relationship between doctor and patient as well as that relating to particular procedures
  • The provision of concise legal advice to plaintiffs and defendants in medical litigation
  • An ethical evaluation of health and medical law and the development and interpretation of theoretical legal arguments
  • Advanced communication in health and medical law, orally and in writing
  • Conducting effective legal research in the area of health and medical law.
Requirements

Students must complete eight subjects in total.

Students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must complete Fundamentals of the Common Law, as well as seven subjects from the list below.

Students with a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must complete at least seven subjects from the prescribed list and may choose an eighth subject from those available in the Melbourne Law Masters (excluding Fundamentals of the Common Law).


Master of Health and Medical Law 507

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Master of Health and Medical Law 507