COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTH LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÖZH 5025 HEALTH LAW ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Private Law

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ILKNUR SERDAR

Offered to

Course Objective

The aim of course; to introduce basic concepts and institutions of healt law and to provide their relations with private law especially the principles of liability law.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to explain Health-related public and private structures, their duties, tasks and responsibilities.
2   Be able to determine scientific studies, given the judicial decisions and legislations on the health law.
3   Be able to identify Patient Rights, within the framework of regulations and their implementation shortcomings and missing aspects of the legal structure.
4   Be able to producethe resolution of disputes of treatment contracts within framework of their legal nature, the structure of the parties and definitions.
5   Be able to distinguish the duties and obligations between Doctors and other health professionals.
6   Be able to determine other health professionals liability.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and Scope of Health Law, Health Law and Concepts of Medical Law, The Place of Health Law in Other Law Branches.
2 Health Law Resources, Basics regulations about Health Law.
3 Definition of Treatment Contract and their Legal Nature and Elements.
4 Doctor's Obligations; Diagnosis, Selecting the appropriate treatment method, Lighting the patient, Gaining the patient's acceptance, Due diligence, controlling the patient after treatment.
5 Obligations of the patient; comply with the rules of Service Institutions, giving the correct information, comply the the recommendations of doctors, Establishing a Dialogue constructive and positive, fee Payment.
6 The Types of Medical Intervention, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Interventions, on organ and tissue transplantation Interventions, Interventions for Cosmetic, treatment Activities with Pharmaceutical.
7 Concrete case study.
8 midterm exam
9 Legal Responsibility of Health Personnel; Sourca and results of Liability.
10 Institutions and organizations that provide health services; Legal Responsibility of the hospitals.
11 Description of Patient's Rights, Patient's Rights on the International Documents.
12 Patient's Rights Legislation on Turkish Law.
13 Utilization of health services, Freedom of Information about health status and Right of medical processing with Permits and Approval..
14 Patient's Rights in Medical Research; Protection and Disclosure of volunteer, the form of consent of the volunteer and to use Pharmaceutical within framework Research. -The responsible authorized Persons on the perspective of Patient's Rights and applicable Legal Ways in Case of Violation.

Recomended or Required Reading

Aşçıoğlu, Çetin, Doktorların Hukuki ve Cezai Sorumluluğu, Ankara, 1982
Er, Ünal, Sağlık Hukuku, Savaş Yayınevi, Ankara 2008.
Erman,Barış,Tıbbi Müdahalelerin Hukuka Uygunluğu, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2003.
Erol Hatırnaz, Gültezer, Özel Hastanelerin Hukuki Sorumluluğu ve Hasta Hakları,2.Bası, Seçkin Yayınları, Ankara 2009.
Hakeri, Hakan, Tıp Hukuku, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara 2007.
Hancı, I. Hamit, Malpraktis, Tıbbi Girişimler Nedeniyle Hekimin Ceza ve Tazminat Sorumluluğu, 2.Bası, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2005.
Ipekyüz, Filiz Yavuz; Türk Hukukunda Hekimlik Sözleşmesi, Vedat Kitapçılık, Istanbul, 2006.
Özlü, Tevfik, Hasta Hakları, Timaş Yayınları, Istanbul, 2005.
Polat, Oğuz, Tıbbi Uygulama Hataları, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2005.
Sarıtaş, Hatice, Hasta Hakları Açısından Hekim Sorumluluğu, Bilge Yayınevi, Ankara 2005.
Savaş, Halide, Yargıya Yansıyan Tıbbi Müdahale Hataları, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, discussion of concrete examples of events, presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ilknurser@gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 34 34
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparing presentations 1 19 19
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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