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LAW 2957 - Law and Medicine: Cooperative Professionalism


This is a skills course that should be taken with Health Law or Bioethics or after a student has completed one or both of those courses.   It will be taught in part at the Nassau University Medical Center (NuHealth) and will include medical, as well as law, students.  The course will teach students about hospital care and about the manner in which lawyers and physicians might respond to a wide set of clinical and bioethical dilemmas that occur in hospital settings. Further, the course will encourage law students and medical students, respectively, to understand the professional culture of the other group. 

The course will be divided into two parts. The first part will introduce law students to the theory and skills required for legal and bioethical consultations about patient care in hospitals. The second part of the course will occur at NuHealth and will join law students with medical students doing clinical rotations at the Hospital. Weekly seminar sessions will focus around case presentations. Students will engage in structured exercises, based on the cases. In these exercises, students will be assigned to play the roles of lawyers, bioethicists, health care providers, patients, and patients’ family members.

Prerequisites & Notes
For law students, the course offers skills credit and writing credit II.

 Enrollment is limited. Interested students should speak with Prof. Janet Dolgin.

Credits: 3





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