INDS 302 — Medical Ethics and Health Law

The objectives of this course are to familiarize students with the basic ethical and legal issues and problems arising in clinical medicine and to develop the skills needed to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas. Emphasis is placed on the following subjects: informed consent, risk disclosure, patient competence, confidentiality, research ethics, discontinuing life support, physician impairment, and ethics in the team context.

• Credits: 1.5
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci
• Department: Medicine and Health Sciences