PrF:MVP002K Legal Clinic of Medical Law - Course Information

MVP002K Legal Clinic of Medical Law

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

JUDr. Kateřina Šimáčková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Zuzana Vikarská, MJur, MPhil, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Sandra Pašková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. et Mgr. Matěj Stříteský, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Tereza Vafková (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

JUDr. Zuzana Vikarská, MJur, MPhil, Ph.D.
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Andrea Špačková, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law

Timetable of Seminar Groups

MVP002K/01: Wed 6. 3. 16:00–17:40 124, 18:00–19:40 124, Wed 20. 3. 16:00–17:40 124, 18:00–19:40 124, Wed 3. 4. 16:00–17:40 124, 18:00–19:40 124, Wed 17. 4. 16:00–17:40 124, 18:00–19:40 124, Wed 1. 5. 16:00–17:40 124, 18:00–19:40 124, Wed 15. 5. 16:00–17:40 124, 18:00–19:40 124, S. Pašková, Z. Vikarská

Prerequisites

SOUHLAS
No prerequisites. The course is open also to students from other faculties. The only prerequisite for this course is interest in the field of medical law and willingness to engage actively in the seminars, not only by means of being active in discussions but also by means of "role plays". These are the best method for acquiring skills such as the skill to obtain all the necessary information from the client/patient, or the skill to inform any person in a comprehensible way.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 21/15, only registered: 8/15

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Law (programme PrF, PR_) (2)
• Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
• General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL)

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to offer students of law and medical faculties basic information in the field of medical law and ethics, to lead them to understand the basic concepts and to teach them to apply the acquired knowledge to concrete examples in their legal or medical practice.

Learning outcomes

Having taken this course, students should be able to answer the following questions:
- What are the rights of patients and of doctors?
- What are the conditions of medical procedures?
- What is 'lege artis'?
- What is 'informed consent' and how is it given in cases of children, patients without legal capacity or unconscious patients?
- How should one work with medical documentation?
- How to prevent medical disputes? How best to conduct medical disputes in case they cannot be prevented?

Syllabus

• Students will obtain information about the following issues:
• - Patients' right to information, doctors' duty of confidentiality
• - Conditions of medical procedures
• - Informed consent, lege artis procedures
• - Liability in medical law: damages, protection of personality, complaints
• - Financing healthcare: above-standard services, reg. fees
• - Clinically recomended procedures
• Students will learn:
• - How to prevent medical disputes
• - How best to pursue a medical dispute
• - How to conduct an interview with a client and a patient
• - How to answer questions in a legal clinic
• - How to make comments on draft legislative bills
• - How to work with medical documentation
• - How to orientate in legal norms in the area of medical law

Literature

required literature
• KOPSA TĚŠINOVÁ, Jolana, Tomáš DOLEŽAL and Radek POLICAR. Medicínské právo. 2. vydání. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2019, xxxiii, 46. ISBN 9788071793182. info
• ŠUSTEK, Petr and Tomáš HOLČAPEK. Zdravotnické právo. Vydání první. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2016, 850 stran. ISBN 9788075523211. info

recommended literature
• HERRING, Jonathan. Medical law and ethics. Sixth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, xxxix, 674. ISBN 9780198747659. info
• PRUDIL, Lukáš and André DEN EXTER. The Czech Republic: Medical Law. 1st ed. The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International BV, 2019, 70 pp. International Encyclopaedia of Laws. ISBN 978-90-6544-943-6. info
• ČERVENÁ, Kateřina and Michaela KOPALOVÁ. Jak správně poradit pacientům (How to advise patients). Brno: Liga lidských práv, 2009. URL info
• MACH, Jan. Medicínské právo - co a jak : praktické rady pro lékaře a zdravotníky. První vydání. Praha: Galén, 2015, 135 stran. ISBN 9788074922183. URL info

Teaching methods

Solving case studies from www.ferovanemocnice.cz
Working with medical documentation
Training of practical skills - interview with a client, commenting on draft legislation

Assessment methods

Regular attendance (with the possibility of one absence), active participation in the seminars, submission of the written tasks.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Studenti lékařské fakulty mohou požádat o zapsání do předmětu i nad limit prostřednictvím tzv. žádosti o výjimku s odůvodněním - viz https://is.muni.cz/auth/napoveda/student/registrace#s_reg_vyjimka

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2024, recent)
  
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