Study Programmes 2015-2016
DROI1309-1  
Societal aspects of health
  • Law and health
  • Bioethics and societal medicine
Duration :
Law and health : 20h Th
Bioethics and societal medicine : 10h SEM
Number of credits :
Master in public health (120 ECTS)3
Lecturer :
Law and health : Gilles Genicot
Bioethics and societal medicine : Philippe Boxho, Jean-Yves Reginster
Coordinator :
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Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
Law and health
Medical and biomedical law : general notions of law, legal reasoning, judicial organisation; legal approach of patient-doctor relationship, medical contract, patient's rights (informed consent), access to medical files, incompetent patients, medical secrecy; medical liability (breach of contract / tort, damage, causation, no fault indemnisation); specific medical acts : sterilisation, abortion, euthanasia, autopsy and investigations, blood, organs and bodily material donation and circulation; general notions of medical ethics, ethical reasoning, basic functioning rules of ethical committees
Bioethics and societal medicine
The student will integrate the basic and advanced concepts leading to the optimization of his/her interaction with health professionals and patients. He/she will integrate the ethical dimensions helping him/her to better take into account the global societal challenges that will help to improve his/her diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium. Participative and proactive interaction would be considered as the basis of the course.
Learning outcomes of the course :
Law and health
Understanding and identifying the legal aspects of a healthcare relationship Assessing and combining the applicable principles (which may conflict with each other) Reasoning in terms of medical liability Advising practitioners in difficult situations Getting acquainted with the basis of ethical analysis
Bioethics and societal medicine
The experiences of the learning have to be : "Arrange ethical and thical bases, allowing to develop a humanist reasoning in front of social problems met in a common way in the practice of health care"
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Law and health
None in particular
Bioethics and societal medicine
There is no prerequisited and no corequired
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Law and health
Ex cathedra teaching with support (book and powerpoint) A partial powerpoint presentation will be uploaded in October. It will be completed with a final version in December
Bioethics and societal medicine
The planned activities of learning will be: " Courts oral and interaction with representatives of the civil society, recognized for their expertise in the concerned problem "
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Law and health
Face-to-face. It is important to attend the course
Bioethics and societal medicine
The mode of education will be face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :
Law and health
Highly recommended reading : Gilles GENICOT, Droit médical et biomédical, Larcier, 2010 (available at the Presses universitaires)
Bioethics and societal medicine
There is neither recommended or compulsory reading nor notes
Assessment methods and criteria :
Law and health
First session : written exam (open questions, definition of notions, reasoning on a practical case) Second session : oral exam after preparation of a written question Students should bring legal texts (without any overwriting)
Bioethics and societal medicine
A score of 4 points (out of 20) will be given for each attendance at the 7 lessons, but only the presence at 5 sessions of your choice is required to obtain the maximum score. The presence at the opening session , however, is mandatory under penalty of the loss of 8 points on the total obtained. You are obviously free to attend all sessions if you wish.   For the second session, the student will have to realize a personal work of 25 pages, in one of the themes which will have been approached, during the teaching of the concerned academic year. The work must be put back in duplicate before August 15th, on one hand to Professor Boxho and on the other hand, to Professor Reginster
Work placement(s) :
Bioethics and societal medicine
There is no training course to be considered
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
Law and health
Gilles Genicot, rue de Chaudfontaine 11, 4020 Liège, gilles.genicot@ulg.ac.be
Bioethics and societal medicine
Jean-Yves REGINSTER, Professor Service of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics DSSP CHU SART-TILMAN Bât. B23 Tel. : 04/366.29.26 - Fax : 04/366.25.96 - E-mail : episp@ulg.ac.be Secretary : Vanessa STRAUVEN
Items online :
Law and health
Law and health
List of legal instruments
Law and health
Contents of the course