COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRIMINAL LAW OF MEDICINE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HUK 4069 CRIMINAL LAW OF MEDICINE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Law

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SERKAN MERAKLI

Offered to

Law

Course Objective

To investigate the common points of the medical law and the criminal law, especially the responsibilities and the obligations of the medical doctors and the patients.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to consider the legal references of the medical law.
2   Being able to tell the requirements of the lawful medical intervention.
3   Being able to express the malpractise and its concequences.
4   Being able to determine the offences bu the medical doktors
5   Being able to investigate the responsibilities and the obligations of the medical doctors and the patients

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the medical law Main concepts of the medical law
2 The requirements of the lawful medical intervention (General Explanations The requirements of the lawful medical intervention (The obligation to illimunation and the approval of the patient)
3 Obligations of the medical doctor Obligations of the patient
4 Midterm Malpractise and its concequences
5 The evaluation of the medical intervention of the medical doctor from the criminal law perspective The offences proper to medical doctors (Willful Muder by medical doctor TCC 82, Negligence Murder TCC 83, Inducement of the medical doctor to the suicide 84, Reckless homicide by the medical doctor TCC 85, Hekimin Kasten Yaralaması. TCC 86, The charging injury by its result TCK 87, Negligence willful injury TCK 88, reckless injury by the medical doctor TCK 89.)
6 The offences proper to medical doctor (Exrementation by the medical doctor on human beings TCC 90., Trading of organs and tissius by the medical doctor TCC 91, The breach of the help and the notice obligation TCC 98, Misdemeanor proper to the medical doctors (Imcompetent medical doctor or the dentist)
7 Misdemeanor proper to the medical doctors (medical operation without the consent of the patient) Case Study
8 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Ana kaynaklar:
1. Hakeri Hakan, Tıp Ceza Hukuku, 5. Baskı, Ankara 2024.
2. Demirel Muhammed/ Erbaş Rahime, Istanbul Tıp Hukuku Kitabı, 1. Baskı, Ankara 2024.
3. Sümer Seda Yağmur, (Sır Saklama Yükümlülüğü Kapsamında) Sağlık Mesleği Mensuplarının Suçu Bildirmemesi Suçu
(TCK m. 280), Ankara 2020.
4. Hakeri Hakan, Tıp ve Sağlık Hukuku El Kitabı, 4. Baskı, Ankara 2024.
5. Tsambikakis Michael/ Rostalski Frauke, Medizinstrafrecht, Nomos Verlag, Baden- Baden 2023.
6. Hilgendorfg Eric, Einführung in das Medizinstrafrecht, 3. Auflage, 2026.
7. Kraatz Eic, Arztstrafrecht, 3. Auflage, Kohlhammer Verlag, 2023.
Yardımcı kaynaklar:
1. Resmi Gazete, www.mevzuat.gov.tr
2. Adalet Bakanlığı Resmi Internet Sitesi, www.adalet.gov.tr
3. Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Resmi Internet Sitesi, www.tbmm.gov.tr
4. Yargıtay Resmi Internet Sitesi, www.yargitay.gov.tr
5. Anayasa Mahkemesi Resmi Internet Sitesi, www.anayasa.gov.tr

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

It will be announced later.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE roundKPU + FN,0
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) roundKPU + BUT,0


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)

serkan.merakli@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations for final 1 25 25
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparations for midterm 1 22 22
Final 1 2 2
midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

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