Brief Course on Health Law and Bioethics - 5th edition

1. Acquire and update skills and knowledge in the various current domains in Health Law and understand the problems posed to society and the legislator in terms of Bioethics.
2. Know the constitutional dimension of the right to health and its ethical and legal implications
3. Knowing the most “essential” rights of the patient, such as privacy and protection of clinical data, along with the duty of medical information as a condition for the provision of informed consent.
4. Understand the meaning and scope of “informed consent”, its legal implications
5. Know the user's rights in the context of cross-border healthcare.
6. Understand the scope of the impact of new technologies on leges artis ad hoc medicinale.
7. Know the implications of Artificial Intelligence in medicine and in the re-dimensioning of “medical error”, as the advent of “new frontiers” of medical responsibility
8. Know the medical liability regime for deviation from fulfilling the duties of the profession.
9. Understand the phenomenon of obstetric violence in Portugal
10. Understand which palliative care is applied in the SNS and the rights of the patient in “continued care” and of the “terminal patient”, especially with regard to the “right not to suffer”, the “humanization in death”
11. Understand the scope of respect for the terminally ill's self-determination through advance directives of will (living will and health care proxy).

More information: Curso Breve de Direito da Saúde e Bioética