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Rights and Obligations of Patients
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:33
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_487 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law; Civil Rights | Target Audience: | Medicine; Medical Services; Medical Technologies; Juridical Science; Law; Health Management | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Karina Palkova | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Foreknowledge in ethics. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Introduce students to the legislation and jurisprudence of patients' rights and issues of protection of the rights. To develop the skills to use a wide range of legal norms, to identify problems and to find the solving issues, as well as to propose the legal solutions and to give theoretical understanding of patient rights issues. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Legal regulation of patients' rights: national and international aspects. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Characteristics of patients' rights in the digital environment | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Obligations of patients in the treatment process. Legal framework and issues. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Special groups of patients: Characterization of the rights of minor patients and other groups of patients in the treatment process. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Mechanisms and responsibility for the protection of patients' rights | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Patient participation in clinical trials | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 0.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Preparation and solving of independent written assignments (including case law) according to the topics and requirements set in the classes, Independent study of the legal literature and practice materials, analysis and creation of legal documents and test. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in lectures and participation in course assessment questionnaire - 25%, timely, qualitative and 100% completed written homework - 75%. Written exam. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will have basic knowledge of current legal issues in the field of patients' rights. Students will be able to use the acquired knowledge as a basis for further research in law studies or in health care practice. Students will be able to incorporate and summarize knowledge of different branches of law in the field of health and medical law, as well as contribute to the creation of new knowledge, research and professional activities. | ||||||||
| Skills: | As a result of the study students are able to identify legal problems in the field of legal relationships between a patient and medical practitioners. Students are able to apply the relevant legal norms in solving specific legal situations, prepare procedural documents, analyze problematic issues and give them independent and motivated assessment, propose a solution of the situation. Know what kind of legal regulations regulates patients 'rights and obligations, what is the mechanism for protecting patients' rights. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are able independently analyze and identify problem areas in the field of patient rights. May apply current sources of law in the field of patients' rights, independently obtain, select and analyze the necessary information on a specific legal issue, as well as carry out theoretical and practical analysis and research. Students are able to apply knowledge and skills in professional activities, independently improve their qualification, to analyze legal information on patients 'rights, to make proposals for improvement of legal regulation, to identify and analyze current issues in the field of patients' rights. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | 30.12.2009. Pacientu tiesību likums: LV likums. Latvijas Vēstnesis. 205(4191). | ||||||||
| 2 | 01.07.1997. Ārstniecības likums: LV likums. Latvijas Vēstnesis. 167/168. | ||||||||
| 3 | 19.02.2002. Seksuālās un reproduktīvās veselības likums: LV likums. Latvijas Vēstnesis. 27(2602). | ||||||||
| 4 | Pacientu tiesību likuma komentāri / Agnese Gusarova, Ronalds Rožkalns, Santa Slokenberga, Olita Staņislavska, Linda Strazdiņa [un vēl 4 autori] ; Santas Slokenbergas zinātniskā redakcijā; 2019. Pieejams: RSU Brīvpieejas lasītava (614.253.8/ P-03 ); | ||||||||
| 5 | Medicīnas tiesības / sagatavojis autoru kolektīvs S. Ašnevicas-Slokenbergas zinātniskajā redakcijā ; [autori: Agnese Gusarova .u.c. 2022., Pieejams: RSU Brīvpieejas lasītava 61:34(474.3)/ M-08. Otrais papildinātais izdevums | ||||||||
| 6 | Jackson E., Medical law text, cases, and materials (4th ed. Oxford Unicerity Press, United Kingdom 2016) vai jebkurš grāmatas iepriekšējais izdevums. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | 09.08.2011. Eiropas Parlamenta un Padomes Direktīva 2011/24/ES (2011. gada 9. marts) par pacientu tiesību piemērošanu pārrobežu veselības aprūpē. ES Oficiālais Vēstnesis. L 88/45. | ||||||||
| 2 | 28.11.2014. Apvienoto Nāciju Organizācijas Ģenerālā asambleja. Bērnu tiesību konvencija. Latvijas Vēstnesis. 237(5297). | ||||||||
| 3 | 07.06.2016. Eiropas Savienības Pamattiesību harta (2012/C 326/02). ES Oficiālais Vēstnesis, C 326/391 | ||||||||
| 4 | Ministru kabineta 2013.gada 5.novembra noteikumi Nr. 1268 “Ārstniecības riska fonda darbības noteikumi.” | ||||||||
| 5 | 31.12.2009. Par Konvenciju par cilvēktiesību un cieņas aizsardzību bioloģijā un medicīnā: Konvenciju par cilvēktiesībām un biomedicīnu. Likums. Latvijas Vēstnesis, 205, 30.12.2009. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | 10.12.1948. Apvienoto Nāciju Organizācijas Vispārējā cilvēktiesību deklarācija. Ģenerālās Asambleja. | ||||||||
| 2 | Medicīnas ētikas rokasgrāmata / [Džons R. Viljamss ; latviešu tekstu zinātniskais redaktors Māris Baltiņš] ; Pasaules Medicīnas asociācija. John R Williams (John Reynold), 1942- 2009 | ||||||||
| 3 | Palkova, K. 2020. Nepilngadīgo pacientu un ārstniecības personu tiesisko attiecību problemātika ārstniecības procesā: promocijas darbs: apakšnozare – civiltiesības. Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte. https://doi.org/10.25143/prom-rsu_2020-01_pd | ||||||||
| 4 | Dolic, Z., Castro, R., Moarcas, A., Robots in healthcare: a solution or a problem?, Study for the Committee on Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety, Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, European Parliament, Luxembourg, 2019 | ||||||||
