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Degree Programme Table: Medical Law and Ethics (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) (PTLLMMELDL1F)

Year 1, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Students studying full time take three modules in the September semester, three modules in the January semester, followed by the dissertation over the summer months. Students studying part time must take at least one module per semester, followed by the dissertation over the summer months of their last year of study. Part-time options exist over 20, 24, 32 or 36 months. The 20 and 32 month options start in January and the 24 and 36 month options start in September. For further information see:
    http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/teaching/llm/information/modeofstudy/


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 5 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    LAWS11175 Law and Medical Ethics 1 - Fundamentals in Consent and Negligence As available 20
    LAWS11176 Law and Medical Ethics 2 - Start and End of Life Issues As available 20
    LAWS11181 Biotechnology, Law & Society As available 20
    LAWS11182 International Public Health Law & Security As available 20
    LAWS11205 Dissertation LLM Medical Law and Ethics As available 60




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    LAWS11180    Information: Control and Power   20  
    LAWS11172    Information Technology, Investigation & Evidence   20  
    LAWS11174    Forensic Computing and Electronic Evidence   20  
    LAWS11173    Managing Intellectual Property   20  
    LAWS11163    Information Technology Law   20  
    LAWS11168    Intellectual Property Law 1: Copyright and Related Rights   20  
    LAWS11169    Intellectual Property Law 2: Industrial Property   20  
    LAWS11179    International Intellectual Property System   20  

    Notes:As part of your option course choices, and subject to approval, the following two 10-credit courses from the School of Biomedical Science may be taken during semester 2:

    TRME11003 Targeting and measuring disease
    TRME11004 Challenges of drug development: past and future

    Note: Each course runs for five weeks, and is worth 10 credits at Masters level. In order to maintain equivalence with the LLM modules, worth 20 credits, you would therefore need to complete both Translational Medicine courses successfully. For further details and advice as to eligibility for these modules, please contact Douglas Roy: douglas.roy@ed.ac.uk

     


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