Health Administration (HADM) 400

Overview

Health Care Law is a rapidly growing field of study in the Canadian Health Care system and health care law field. Health Care and human services professionals working in hospital settings as well as community based care facilities should benefit out of this course. This course provide an understanding of Canadian legal system relevant to clinical practice and policy making. The building blocks of legal analysis are essential to getting the most from this course.

Health law is a field that touches most people's life. This course is designed as a survey of key contemporary issues in health law. It emphasizes case study learning. Its objective is to teach you to think just enough like a lawyer to work through problems with legal aspects. This course contains only general information, which will have to be applied carefully to specific situations, and does not replace professional advice where the situation recommends it.

In this course, we will move, unit by unit, through this learning process, beginning with sources of law, moving to issue identification, then to legal analysis, and to the application of law to facts.

Outline

• Unit 1: Introduction to Health Law
• Unit 2: Health Law and the Canadian Health Care System
• Unit 3: Health Law and Health Professional Regulation
• Unit 4: Clinical Practice and Legal Liability
• Unit 5: General Principles of the Law of Consent
• Unit 6: Specific Problems of the Law of Consent
• Unit 7: Health Information Law
• Unit 8: Reproductive Decision-Making
• Unit 9: Life's End Decision-Making
• Unit 10: Health Law and Genetics

Evaluation

To receive credit for HADM 400, you must achieve a minimum composite course grade of “D” (50 percent) and a mark of 50 percent or more on each assignment, as well as the final examination. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

The final examination for this course must be taken online with an AU-approved exam invigilator at an approved invigilation centre. It is your responsibility to ensure your chosen invigilation centre can accommodate online exams. For a list of invigilators who can accommodate online exams, visit the Exam Invigilation Network.

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Other Materials

All other materials will be accessed online.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the HADM 400 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least "C-" (60 percent) on the examination.

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form