ÇAĞ UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LAW	
Code	Course Name	Credit	ECTS	
LAW 372	Health Law	2(2–0–0)	3	
Prerequisites	None	
Language of Instruction	Turkish	Mode of Delivery	Face to face	
Type and Level of Course	Selective/ 3.Year/Spring Semester	
Lecturers	Name(s) 	Office Hours	Contacts	
Course Coordinator	Dr. Ayten Püren Doğanay	Mon. Wed. Fri.	purendoganay@cag.edu.tr	
Course Objective	Learning and realizing the basic concepts of patient rights and medical ethics, which are the reflection of human rights in health services, is of great importance in terms of medical and legal practice. Within the scope of the course, it is aimed to explain the basic concepts within the framework of current problems of medical law and ethics and to ensure that patients' rights are handled and understood in accordance with current international declarations and medical ethics.	
	Students who have completed the course successfully should be able to;	Relationship	
		P. O.	Net Effect	
Learning Outcomes of the Course	1	Have knowledge about health law and related basic concepts, patient rights within the framework of national and international legislation.	2, 3, 4	2	
	2	 Have basic knowledge about the legal and criminal responsibility of the physician, patient rights and informed consent concepts.	2, 3, 4	3	
Course Description: The Psychology of Justice course examines the concepts of crime and criminals, criminal law institutions, the execution system, the judicial process, the elements that are effective in the decision-making of judges, the institution of witnesses, legal concepts such as being a victim, based on the contemporary data of the psychology of justice, which has become a separate scientific discipline today. It interprets the subconscious states affecting the crime and the commission of crime due to substance abuse between disciplines.	
Course Contents: ( Weekly Lecture Plan )	
Weeks	Topics	Preparation	Teaching Methods	
1	Right to health and right to life, Provision of public health services	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
2	Basic principles of medical ethics	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
3	Development of Patient Rights and International Declarations of Patient Rights	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
4	Basic patient rights within the scope of the Patient Rights Regulation	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
5	Medical interventions 	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers                        	
6	Legal responsibilities of physicians 	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
7	Legal responsibilities of physicians II	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
8	MIDTERM			
9	Confidentiality of the private life	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
10	Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights +QUIZ I	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
11	Event 	-	Lectures, questions and answers            	
12	Tissue-Organ Transplantation - Medical Research	Textbook	Lectures, questions and answers            	
13	Protection of Personal Health Data + QUIZ II	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
14	Health tourism	textbook 	Lectures, questions and answers            	
15	Impacts of climate change on health law		Lectures, questions and answers            	
16	FINAL			
REFERENCES	
Textbook   	Tıp Hukuku ve Etiği Derslerine Giriş; Doç. Dr. Gürkan SERT, Seçkin Yayıncılık, ISBN: 978-975-02-6405-4, Ankara, 2020.	
Course Notes	Course materials will be shared with students every week.	
Recommended Reading	-	
Material Sharing	Powerpoint presentations prepared by the instructor	
ASSESSMENT METODS	
Activities	Number 	Effects	Notes	
Course	12		Full and active participation is required.	
Midterm Exam              	1	30%		
Final Exam	1	50%		
Quiz	2	20%		
Certificate			(At least 80% attendance to in-class trainings and activities is compulsory. As a result of the scores obtained from the exam (BB and above) and the fulfillment of the attendance requirement (at least 80%), the end-of-course certificate will be awarded).	
ECTS TABLE	
Contents	Number	Hours	Total	
Hours in Classroom 	14	2	42	
Hours out Classroom	14	3	42	
Midterm Exam	1	10	28	
Final Exam	1	10	42	
Quiz 	2			
Total      
Total / 30
ECTS Credits	10	
	10	
	-90-
=90/30= 3
3	
RECENT PERFORMANCE