Medical Law and Deontology

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge about the objectives of the different areas of law, namely, Criminal Law, Civil Law and Labour Law.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with powerpoint presentations, followed by discussion and reading legal materials.

Learning Outcomes

The Students hall understand the differences between International Law, Criminal Law, Civil Law and Administrative Law in the filed of Health Regulation.

In the filed of private health law, patient’s rights and duties are explained and the legal system of liability in private and public health institutions.

Concerning criminal law, the legal types of crime are explained as well as the issue of euthanasia and abortion, forensic psychiatry and reporting of crimes during the occupation.

The student should also know the legal issues related to the human genome, the expert activity and the Medico-Legal Portuguese organization; the transplantation of organs and tissues of human origin and the use of cadavers for teaching and research purposes, and relevant post-effectiveness of personal rights and ethics and legal protection of respect for the memory and the corpse of the deceased.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Rights and duties of patients.

The informed consent.

Vital Testament.

Civil responsibility in health institutions.

Legal analysis of the body damage evaluation.

Criminal responsibility: homicide, bodily harm and arbitrary medical and surgical interventions.

Euthanasia and voluntary interruption of pregnancy.

Forensic psychiatry: legal aspects

Health Administrative Law

Transplantation of organs and tissues of human origin.

The use of cadavers for teaching and research purposes.

Knowledge of the human genome: legal aspects.

The Filiation Law and forensic genetics.

The Medical Confidentiality.

The duty of confidentiality and personal data protection; access to clinical documentation.

The denunciation of crimes during the professional activities.

Ethics and expert activity.

The responsibility of the medical forensic expert in Civil Scope.

The expert in criminal procedure.

Medical Ethics and forensic examination.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

AA.VV., Responsabilidade Civil dos Médicos, Centro de Direito Biomédico, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2005.

Andrade, Manuel da Costa, “Anotação aos artigos 149.º, 150.º, 156.º e 157.º”, in DIAS, Jorge de

Figueiredo (Dir.), Comentário Conimbricense do Código Penal –Tomo I, 2.ª Edição, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2012.

Dias, Jorge de Figueiredo, Comentário ConimbricenseaoCódigo Penal, Coimbra.

Andrade, Manuel da Costa, anotação ao art. 195° do CP, Comentário Conimbricense ao Código Penal (sob a direcção de J. de Figueiredo Dias), Tomo I, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 2012, p. 1116-1165.

Oliveira, Guilherme de, Temas de Direito da Medicina, 2.ª edição, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2005.

Pereira, André Gonçalo Dias, O Consentimento Informado na Relação Médico-Paciente. Estudo de Direito Civil, Publicações do Centro de Direito Biomédico, 9, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2004

Pereira, André G. Dias, Direitos dos Pacientes e Responsabilidade Médica, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2015.