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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Karina Palkova
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Medicine; Medical Services; Medical Technologies; Juridical Science; Law; Health Management
Language:English, Latvian
Branch of science:Law; Civil Rights

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.

Prerequisites

Foreknowledge in ethics.

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.

Competence

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.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Medicine, SSNMFz6Master’sLimited choice
Medicine, SSNMF5Master’sLimited choice
Medicine, MF5Master’sLimited choice
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Medicine, SSNMF6Master’sLimited choice
Medicine, MF6Master’sLimited choice
Medicine, SSNMFz5Master’sLimited choice