Study Programmes 2016-2017
DROI1309-1  
Societal aspects of health
  • Law and health
  • Bioethics and societal medicine
Duration :
Law and health : 30h Th
Bioethics and societal medicine : 10h SEM
Number of credits :
Master in public health (120 ECTS)4
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
Learning unit 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 learning unit :
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 learning outcomes are: "To possess ethical and deontological bases, allowing to develop a humanist reasoning in front of social problems met commonly in health care practice".
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: "Oral lessons 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 teaching 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 and Second session : written exam (open questions, definition of notions, reasoning on a practical case) 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 5 lessons.   For the second exam session, the student will have to realize a personal work of 15-20 pages, on 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's secretary (Unity of Public Health - Bât. B23 - niveau 0 - porte 0/7)
Work placement(s) :
Bioethics and societal medicine
There is no training course to be considered
Organizational remarks :
Bioethics and societal medicine
At each of the lessons,  attendance will be electronically recorded. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that his/her registration has correctly been recorded
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 & Health - indicative contents
Indicative contents of each course of Law & Health
Medical Law - list of laws
List of laws relating to medical law
Powerpoint second part
Here is the second part of the powerpoint
Powerpoint first part
Here is the first part of the powerpoint
Powerpoint third part
Here is the third part of the powerpoint (ethical part)