Medical Law, Ethics and Practice (Taught)

Designed for healthcare professionals working directly with patients or involved in clinical governance, research, or risk management, this course equips you to navigate complex legal and ethical challenges in modern medicine — all while continuing your career.

Delivered entirely via Distance Learning, the programme allows you to study flexibly around your schedule, helping you stay in work, enhance your expertise, and maintain a healthier work-life balance.

Key features

• Learn while you work: Ideal for busy professionals — fit your studies around clinical or governance responsibilities without career disruption.

• Real-world focus: Tackle pressing legal and ethical issues including euthanasia, mental health, abortion, patient safety, negligence, and Coroner’s law.

• Taught by experts: Learn from experienced legal professionals — including barristers, solicitors, and international legal scholars.

• Practical, applied learning: Engage with real scenarios through guided, independent and problem-based learning — sharpen your analysis, evaluation, and decision-making skills.

• Flexible block teaching: Study one subject at a time for deeper focus, less stress, and better retention — supporting a more manageable balance of work, study, and life.

• Access to legal resources: Even remotely, benefit from dedicated legal support, including digital access to case law, journal articles, and virtual learning environments.

Modules

• Block 1: Medical Negligence Regulation and Practice

• Block 2: Mental Health, Consent and the Incapacitated Patient

• Block 3: Dissertation Preparation

• Block 4: Creation and Termination of Life

• Block 5: Expert Evidence and Coroner’s Law

• Block 6: Dissertation

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-courses/llm-medical-law-ethics-and-practice/llm-medical-law-ethics-and-practice.aspx

You will be taught via 4 hours online live sessions per module

You will also have access to 4-8 hours of online material per module, which will assist you with your studies. This could include: recorded lectures, online quizzes on Learning Zone Videos/documentaries, Discussion Forums on Learning Zone and an online module handbook.

Assessment is through assignments, essays, presentations and projects. You will undergo two assessments per module.