Medical Law

King's College London

Postgraduate

In London

higher than £ 9000

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

Entry requirements & how to apply
Minimum requirements  2:1

2:1 undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline, e.g. law, medicine, philosophy, theology, social science, one of the life sciences, dentistry or nursing studies.

Alternative qualifications:

Evidence of achievement of an academic level comparable to at least upper second class honours standard through past studies and where previous study, work or experience has made the applicant a suitable candidate, will also be considered.


International requirements   Visit our admissions webpages to view our International entry requirements.
English Language requirements Band B Visit our admissions webpages to view our English language entry requirements.
Application procedure

Applications must be made online using King’s online application portal apply.kcl.ac.uk and a non-refundable application fee of £60 applies.

Applications for this pathway must be made to the generic Medical Ethics and Law MA programme. In the first line of your personal statement, please state if you are interested in applying for the Medical Law pathway. The pathway is selected after you have enrolled at the start of the course. 





Personal statement and supporting information

You will be asked to submit the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

Personal Statement Yes A personal statement of up to 4,000 characters (maximum 2 pages) is required. Applicants are required to submit a personal statement, outlining your academic background, reasons for taking the programme and what you hope to gain from it, including any relevant strengths, ambitions or research interests. You may submit your personal statement directly onto the admissions portal or it may be typed on a separate document and attached..
 Previous Academic Study Yes A copy (or copies) of your official academic transcript(s), showing the subjects studied and marks obtained

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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10 Cutcombe Road, SE5 9RJ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • International
  • Ethics
  • English
  • Medical Ethics
  • English Language
  • IT Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • Philosophy
  • Law
  • Medical
  • Medical training
  • Criminal law
  • Medical law
  • Mental Disorder
  • Transnational Perspectives

Course programme

Course detail Description

This course examines in depth the legal questions raised by medical practice and science. The Medical Law pathway forms a part of the MA Medical Ethics & Law course, which was founded in 1978, and is an important part of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, the first of its kind in the UK.

This is a time of great interest in medical ethics and law. Huge questions are raised by advances in fields such as genetics and assisted reproduction. In a changing moral climate, debates about conflicts between mother and fetus, or about physician-assisted suicide, are very much alive. There are challenging questions about psychiatry, about the allocation of scarce medical resources, about the boundaries of the market in medicine, and about the law and ethics of medical research.

This course is designed for medical or legal professionals, graduates of a relevant discipline and those embarking on further research in this area. You will study the methods of reasoning and analysis in law and examine selected areas of health care and medical practice from a medical law perspective.

Course purpose

For medical/legal professionals, graduates of a relevant discipline, those going on to research and for anyone wanting to think about and discuss some of the hardest human decisions. To study the methods of reasoning and analysis in law and to examine selected areas of health care and medical practice from a further perspective of medical law.

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Course format and assessment

Full-time students are required to complete the programme over one academic year and to write the examinations for each module in January or May of that year. Coursework will be required for some modules and Dissertations are due by late August the same year. Part-time students are required to complete the programme over two academic years, with Dissertations due by late August of the second/final year of study.

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Structure

Year 1 You will take 120 credits of Medical Law modules (see list of available modules below) and a 60 credit dissertation. Teaching is predominantly by seminar to encourage active student participation in critical enquiry. Required Modules You are required to take the following modules:

• Dissertation in Medical Law (60 credits)
• Medical Law I: Consent, Refusal and Request (20 credits) Optional Modules In addition, you are required to take 100 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• Medical Law II: Negligence & Misadventure (20 credits)
• Criminal Law and Mental Disorder: Doctrine & Philosophy (20 credits)
• Law at the End of Life (20 credits)
• Law and Reproduction (20 credits)
• Human Rights Law: International & Transnational Perspectives (40 credits)
• Topics in Medical Law I & II (20 credits each)

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