Postgraduate

Distance

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Methodology

    Distance Learning

  • Location

    Edinburgh (Scotland)

Facilities

Location

Start date

Edinburgh (Midlothian/Edinburghshire)
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Start date

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Course programme

The Edinburgh Law School launched its Masters degree in Medical Law and Ethics via distance learning in 2008. This course draws on the expertise and tradition of Edinburgh to deliver an internationally-focussed, interdisciplinary programme of courses that combines flexible learning with the most-up-to-date teaching on all of the important issues affecting medicine, law and ethics today.

The programme aims to promote advanced knowledge and understanding of medical law and ethics within International, European and Domestic settings. The content spans foundational issues in medical law, such as consent, negligence and confidentiality, issues at the beginning and end of life, public health, biosecurity, regulation of medical research, and legal and social approaches to biotechnology.

Having studied the programme, students will emerge with an understanding of medico-legal issues not just in the legal context, but with a sound grounding in ethics, social and theoretical contexts. During study you will have access to the results of innovative cross-cutting research of the highest quality. This programme is suitable to prepare students for advanced research.

Applications are welcomed from healthcare professionals, including doctors and nurses and from all those with an interest in this area.

Module Information

Students are required to complete a total of 6 modules (120 credit points) and complete a dissertation (60 credit points) over their chosen period of study.

80 course work credits from

Medical Ethics and Law - Start and End of Life Issues
Medical Ethics and the Law - Fundamental Issues in Consent and Negligence
Biotechnology, Law & Society
International Public Health Law & Security

Remaining course work credits from

Information Technology Law
Information: Control and Power
Information Technology, Investigation, and Evidence
Forensic Computing and Electronic Evidence
Intellectual Property Law 1 - Copyright and Related Rights
Intellectual Property Law 2 - Industrial Property
International IP & IT Institutions, Law and Policy
Intellectual Property and Technology â€" Developing Countries
Managing Intellectual Property
International Intellectual Property

Dissertation

Medical Law and Ethics

Tuition Fees

Full-Time (Distance Learning)

The tuition fee for 2010/2011 is £13,000 for all full-time students enrolled on the distance learning programmes, whether they reside in the UK, an EU country or elsewhere in the world.

Part-Time (Distance Learning)

Part-time students pay the relevant proportion of the tuition fee in each year of study, depending on the duration of the programme that they have chosen.

So students completing the programme over 20 or 24 months pay half of the tuition fee in their first year, and half in their second year of study. Students completing the programme over 32 or 36 months pay a third of the tuition fee in each of their three years of study.

Please note that the University's tuition fee is subject to an annual increase (of approximately 5%). The proportion of the fee that part-time students pay each year is calculated on the basis of the current year's tuition fee.

For example, students enrolling for the 20-month or 24-month programmes starting in 2010/2011will pay half of the full-time tuition fee that year - so £6,500. In their second year of study, they will pay half of the tuition fee set for 2011/2012 - so £6,825 if the anticipated 5% increase is implemented.

Medical Law and Ethics

Price on request