Postgraduate Course: Governance of Innovative Medicine (LAWS11388)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is a course about facilitation of the development of innovative medicinal products and their release into the market and clinic, in order to fulfil the societal goal to deliver 'public goods of health'. It provides a framework for thinking about how governance mechanisms enable both the creation of novel research tools and therapeutic products, and their accessibility to the widest community of researchers and patients, in order to ensure their best use to generate the social benefits of health. To do this, the course draws on the notion that innovative medicines have led to innovative governance mechanisms, in a relationship based on dialogue. |
| Course description |
The course will give students a fundamental understanding of:
1. The historic development of the distinction between public and private goods of heath;
2. The range of actors and activities instrumental to the delivery of health benefits;
3. The types of novel biotechnologies that are shaping research and new models of healthcare;
4. International and EU institutions and instruments establishing human rights and economic regimes conducive to the promotion of human welfare;
5. The relationship between EU risk-based regulation of medicinal products, devices, and ATMPs, and 'facilitative governance' through informal collective and public-private arrangements for the promotion of innovation and its products;
6. The interplay between public and private interests, and their influences on innovative medicine and its governance.
7. The role played by proprietary and privacy interests in governance mechanisms
Timetable:-
1. Biomedicine - Old & New
2. Global Architecture
3. The European Context
4. Medicines, Devices & Therapies
5. Trials & Tribulations of drug development
6. From Regulation to Facilitation
7. Persons & Public Interest
8. Property & Procurement
9. Patents & 'Freedom to Operate'
10. Data Access & Privacy
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Please contact the online learning team at law.online@ed.ac.uk |
| Additional Costs | Students must have regular and reliable access to the internet. |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Appreciate the range of competing actors, interests and values at play, and the inherent tensions they create, in the governance of innovative medicine
- Demonstrate knowledge that integrates most of the main areas of the subject of regulation and governance of innovative medicine, including a critical awareness and understanding of the challenges associated with delivery of products to market and clinic
- Identify, and apply critical analysis and evaluation to, key issues in the subject area
- Formulate well-reasoned and coherent arguments relating to key issues in the subject area
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Reading List
There is no single set text for the course, but a range of journal-based materials will be referred to.
A detailed list of key resources will be available at the start of the course. |
Additional Information
| Course URL |
https://edin.ac/2AqosXa |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will develop the following skills and abilities:
1. Cognitive skills. The course will enable the student to select and deploy appropriate research techniques; they will critically analyse and evaluate key issues in the subject area, and formulate coherent arguments relating to key issues in the subject area.
2. Communications. Students will be able to summarise and communicate information and ideas effectively in oral and written form. Students are also expected to interact with each other and with tutors online.
3. Autonomy, accountability. Students will exercise personal autonomy and intellectual initiative in, and take responsibility for, the conduct of their own work.
4. Working with others. They will engage with others through participation in online discussion: articulating and supporting a line of argument and formulating critical analyses of arguments presented by others. |
| Special Arrangements |
This course is taught by online learning. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
This course is taught by online learning. |
| Keywords | medicine,health research,innovation,regulation,governance,public/private,commercial,economic,product |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Murray Earle
Tel: (0131 6)50 8183
Email: murray.earle@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Clare Polson
Tel: (0131 6)51 9704
Email: Clare.Polson@ed.ac.uk |
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