Duration
Law and health : 28h Th
Ethics and health : 12h SEM
Number of credits
| Master in public health (120 ECTS) | 4 crédits | |||
| Specialised master in health care data management | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Law and health : Gilles Genicot
Ethics and health : Florence Caeymaex
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
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, vulnerable 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, assisted reproduction and research on embryos, clinical research; general notions of medical ethics
Ethics and health
To come
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
Ethics and health
To come
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Law and health
None in particular
Ethics and health
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 powerpoint presentation will be uploaded during the quadrimester
Ethics and health
To come
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Law and health
Face-to-face. It is important to attend the course
Ethics and health
The teaching will be face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Law and health
Highly recommended reading : Gilles GENICOT, Droit médical et biomédical, Larcier, 2nd edition, 2016 (available at the Presses universitaires)
Ethics and health
To come
Assessment methods and criteria
Law and health
First session and Second session : written exam (open questions, definition of notions, reasoning on a practical case, etc.) Students should bring legal texts (without any overwriting)
Ethics and health
To come
Work placement(s)
Ethics and health
There is no training course to be considered
Organizational remarks
Ethics and health
None
Contacts
Law and health
Gilles Genicot, rue de Chaudfontaine 11, 4020 Liège, gilles.genicot@uliege.be
Ethics and health
Florence CAEYMAEX, Senior Research Associate F.R.S.-FNRS
Philosophy Department
Liège University
Place du 20 Août, 7 (A1)
4000 Liège
(2nd floor)
Phone : 04 366 56 00 / 04 366 55 99
F.Caeymaex@ulg.ac.be
Secretary : Delphine VANNESTE
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Law and health
Everything that has been seen during the course and is featured in the powerpoint support (the course was wholly given face-to-face during the first quadrimester)
Assessment methods
Law and health
Written exam via eCampus :
1. open questions delivered in random order - duration : 1h
2. 10 true-false questions - 0 point or 1 point (no +1 / -1) - duration : 15 min
Contacts
Law and health
gilles.genicot@uliege.be
Items online
Law and health
Case given at the exam
See document
List of statute laws
List of statute laws in Medical Law
Powerpoint 2019
Complete slides of the 2019-2020 course