Here's one I had missed from University of Manchester: MA in Health Care Ethics and Law. I shall add it to my short list.
Thanks for sharing this one. Up to this point the only medical-law certificate or masters I've found was the LLM in Medical Law from North Umbria. I also have an interest in something like this. Can't find anything in the US that is offered to non-lawyers.
Concord USED to offer an on-line LL.M. in Health Law but it appears to have vanished. Also, SCUPS offered an unaccredited M.S. for non lawyers in Health Law, IIRC. I don't know if it is still around.
Hello seekinghelp: Glasgow also have one: http://www.medlaw.org.uk/index.htm Requires at least one brief residency per year. I am more interested in the ethics side rather than law. Please share any programs that you find in this area. Top of my list currently is the Lampeter "Medical Ethics" program.
In the United States, ethics is usually taught as a division of Philosophy rather than law. There are those who maintain that it shows!
Nova Southeastern University in Florida, has a Master's in Health Law found here: http://www.nsulaw.nova.edu/online_programs/mhl/index.cfm . No prior legal degree is required, it has some required residency in Florida, and is heavily oriented towards administrative and regulatory aspects of health care. It has a definite focus on financial issues, such as billing, Medicare fraud, managed care and the like. Solely for my own interest, I looked at the Northumbria program, since it is the only program I have found with a malpractice/risk management emphasis. By profession, I am a healthcare risk manager with 20 years experience in the field. After talking with the University and some colleagues in mine in the Medical Defence Union in the UK, the Northumbria program is really geared for administrators in the NHS and UK attornies who wish to get a very basic grounding in malpractice law. I was told that anyone with more than five years experience in malpractice or risk management would learn very little new from the program. Regards, Michael Lloyd Mill Creek, Washington USA
There appears to be a well-developed program at Monash University in Australia. Also, our old friend UNISA seems to have a program, although I've been unable to access the site today in order to confirm this. Jack
In practice this is an area that is most often left to MD's. Medical ethics are frequently left to the AMA and similar associations. Individual hospital boards are frequently chaired by MD's. Some might say that such parochialism does not serve the public interest. I, for one, would support a broader sphere of influence in this area. Jack
I continue to look and will post here if I find anything you may be interested in. I can't do any residency overseas, can't afford it and I don't fly so I'm looking strictly for something I can complete from home. Not easy to do. I'll let you know if I find anything.
