What are these courses on?
The first of these online courses to be made available focuses on the ethics and law of medical decision making:
Medical Decision-Making: Ethics and Law
- Introduction to ethics and law
- Introduction to law and legal research
- The moral and legal importance of the principle of respect for individual autonomy
- The importance of obtaining valid legal consent
- How much information is enough?
- Mental Capacity, competence and consent
- Refusal and withdrawal of treatment.
- Treating children and adolescents
- Confidentiality
[Click 'here' for more information about the contents of each course]
Further short electronic courses will be launched in the coming months on a wide variety of bioethical and medico-legal issues (see section on 'Courses coming soon' on the left of this page).