Teaching Materials

These folders contain the teaching materials (handouts and tutor notes) for the medical ethics and law course taught to medical students in Oxford. You are welcome to use these teaching materials in your own teaching. If you do so, please acknowledge the Ethox Centre. These handouts are used in conjunction with the course textbook, 'Medical Ethics and Law: the core curriculum (Second Edition)' Hope, T. Savulescu, J. and Hendrick, J. (2007) Churchill-Livingstone.

course aims, objectives and resources

 

session one (year 4): introductory Lecture

 

session two (year 4): confidentiality and introduction to medical law

 

session three (year 4): consent

 

session four (year 4): ethical and legal issues at the end of life

 

session five (year 4): genetic testing

 

session six (year 4): medical research with human participants

 

year four assessment

 

session seven (year 5): treating patients without consent

 

session eight (year 5): pregnancy