Legal Aspects of Healthcare module (LW50111)

This module is designed to help you understand the law of negligence, causation and damage. It evaluates potential reforms to the law of negligence. It also examines consent's legal and ethical dimensions. The module also looks into legal consent and confidentiality regulations.

What you will learn

In this module you will:

• learn skills required to analyse legal dilemmas
• learn how to discuss and write about the laws and tests applied to potential and reported cases of negligence, assault and battery
• take part in discussions about complex legal problems in the context of common and civil law tests
• deepen knowledge of negligence and consent principles in tort/delict law
• enhance understanding of assault and battery principles in criminal law

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• analyse legal dilemmas about healthcare law. You will be able to offer legal, ethical and procedural solutions to the problems
• understand, write and discuss laws and tests in related cases
• discuss and write about the potential and reported legal cases
• analyse complex legal issues using common and civil law tests

Assignments / assessment

• coursework (100%)

The module has 6 components:

1. Clinical Negligence I 
2. Clinical Negligence II 
3. Consent to treatment I 
4. Consent to treatment II 
5. Confidentiality I 
6. Confidentiality II

An understanding of each is checked using a formative or summative assignment that is either an online test or a piece of written work.

This module does not have a final exam.

Teaching methods / timetable

• guided independent study
• assessment tasks, with individual access to tutors for advice 

Materials for the module will be provided through our virtual learning environment, My Dundee. This includes the module handbook, reading list and any slides or additional materials.