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Mar 02, 2025
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LAW 2705 - Skills in Bioethics
This course complements Bioethics and the Law and focuses on providing students with a set of skills increasingly used in hospitals and other healthcare facilities in response to disputes about patient care among patients, family members, and/or clinicians and hospitals. Increasingly, hospitals look to bioethicists (many of whom are lawyers) to help disputing parties to shape responses to life and death situations. Responding knowledgeably to such situations requires familiarity with relevant laws and litigation options and also requires understanding a set of methods for resolving disputes that aim to preclude court cases. The course will focus on practical skills needed by bioethicist-lawyers, working to resolve disputes in healthcare settings. These include the ability to direct bioethical mediations, to handle bioethical consultations, and to provide legal guidance to hospital ethics committees. In addition, bioethicist-lawyers may be compelled to litigate, should alternative methods of dispute resolution fail to resolve bioethical disputes. Students will engage in a series of simulated exercises that will require them to practice each of these skills.
The course will offer 2 skills credits and it will satisfy the Law School’s Writing Credit II requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
None.
Credits: 2
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