Health Law (LAW361) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Health Law LAW361 Area Elective 2 0 0 2 3
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language Turkish
Course Type Area Elective
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Instructor Serap Özbey
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The main goal of the course is to address the legal rules regarding the solution of the problems faced by persons or institutions in the contracts of diagnosis and treatment; the responsibilities of the hospitals and the rights and obligations of the patient; the nature of the contract between the patient and the health institution; rules to be applied in case of breach of contract; mutual rights and obligations; by examining the special regulation issues of a number of special interventions; to provide information about provisions related to health law.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Identifies problems related to health law.
  • Classifies health institutions.
  • Explain patient's rights and obligations.
  • Solves the legal disputes between the patient and the physician.
  • Practice of health law provisions in legal relations between physician and patient.
Course Content The legal relationship between patient and medical doctors; the rights and responsibilities of the hospitals and patients, the contracts between the parties, the pecuniary and criminal liability of medical staff and hospitals.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 What are the purposes of health law? Legislation related to the course. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
2 Types of health institutions Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
3 Rights and obligations of health institutions (obligation to disclose patients) Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
4 The patient's rights and obligations (consent and informed consent) Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
5 The values that make up the personality; body integrity; intervention in body integrity; the necessity of the provision where special advantage is given to the superior quality Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
6 The nature of treatment and diagnosis; the nature of the contract between the parties Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
7 Midterm
8 Aesthetic operations Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
9 Tissue transplants Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
10 Erganun transplants Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
11 Tube doll Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
12 Other special interventions Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
13 Liability (legal liability, reimbursement of the damages of the patient - compensation of damages of the patient's relatives) Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
14 Damages Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
15 The general assessment of the course Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
16 Final Exam

Sources

Course Book 1. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Üçışık - Sağlık Hukuku
Other Sources 2. Prof. Dr. Hakan Hakeri - Tıp Hukuku

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 70
Toplam 2 100
Percentage of Semester Work 30
Percentage of Final Work 70
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses X
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Skills to understand, compare and paraphrase the basic concepts of law as a jurist following common principles of law. X
2 Skills to solve problems using a critical point of view when necessary , to determine and analyse the theoretical and implementation problems of law. X
3 Contribution to understanding, planning, exercising and coordinating the functionss of law, by explaining and practising. X
4 Skills to understand the strategic, tactical and practical sides of private and public law. X
5 Skills to understand the local, national, international, universal and supranational sides of private and public law. X
6 Skills to understand the modern methods and differences of law. X
7 Skills to participate in/inter disciplinary group works succesfully. X
8 Skills to adopt open minded behaviors in the way of learning and attempting. X
9 Skills to assimilate and carry the rules of ethics and profession within the framework of social responsibility X
10 Skills to use Turkish efficiently in writing and speaking, and have the communication talent that is required by a law related career. X
11 Skills to approach critically and creativly on the legal and social problems in terms of rule of law and ideal of justice. X
12 Skills to understand and practice the national and international sides of law through caselaw and judical implementations. X
13 Skills to prepare/present a written or oral academic study within the framework of acedemic ethic and rules. X
14 Skills to use vocational information technologies efficiently in solving legal problems. X
15 Skills to reinforce knowledge of foreign languages and command of legal terminolgy. X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 2 32
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 16 2 32
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 6 6
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 5 5
Total Workload 75