Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
ECHA-0014
Organization's ID:
MA133
Organization:
Eastwick College-Hackensack
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
12 weeks (24 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 2 Medical Law
Description

Objective:

To examine the legal relationship between the employer and employee, patient relationships, and legalities as they pertain to health professions.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Define law, ethics, and bioethics and know the importance of each
  • Define the types of medical practice and the importance of each
  • Know the guidelines for Ambulatory Health Care
  • Understand regulations and professional liability
  • Understand the importance of medical records
  • Perform collection and employment practices
  • Describe what consent is and how the team is utilized
  • Gain an understanding in a cultural point of view
  • Discuss genetic engineering, abortion, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and how they affect individual views
  • Discuss issues on life and death, and death and dying

General Topics:

  • Legal knowledge in the medical office (statutory law, administrative law, common law, medical malpractice), duty of the physician (standard care, parameters of responsibility), civil and criminal law, contracts, medical malpractice, health care and business, medical records, ethics, privacy and confidentiality, and birth rights
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
Supplemental Materials