Health Care Law and Bioethics

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• examine and assess specific aspects of health care law;
• clarify, inform, and defend your views on selected issues of health care law and bioethics.
• consider the bioethical legitimacy of legal and other mechanisms for regulating health care;
• examine the relationship between law and ethics in the context of health care;
• critically appraise the use of law to promote health and secure healthcare, using appropriately selected specific examples to justify your assessment;

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• key bioethical debates regarding health care provision, and their relationship with law and legal understanding.
• Health Care Law as a discrete area of study;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• communicate your views using clear, reasoned argument demonstrating an appreciation of academic integrity.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Essay

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: individual feedback is given using the standard form, as well as general feedback provided through Blackboard and/or in the lecture.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.