With the increasing intersection between health care delivery and the law, health care providers encounter an ever wider range of legal issues in their day-to-day working lives. Understanding your legal responsibilities and the ability to recognize and manage legal risks have never been more important.

Osgoode’s Certificate in Health Law was developed specifically for health care professionals. Over five intensive one-day modules, you will learn what you need to know about contemporary issues in health law from an accomplished faculty of health law experts. Armed with this information, you and your organization will be better positioned to assess risks, make decisions, improve patient care and safety, and take the necessary practical steps to minimize risks.

Key Benefits:

• Legal obligations in health care – comprehensive overview of the legal framework
• Capacity and consent to treatment
• Refusing treatment and withdrawal of treatment
• Apology legislation and its implication for health care providers
• Malpractice in health care – mock examination for discovery and cross-examination
• Information technology, hospital information sharing agreements and privacy law
• Privacy challenges in the wider health care community
• Collaborative care – problems and pitfalls
• The regulation of health professionals
• Human rights challenges – end of life and human reproductive issues
• Ethical problems in health care – ethics and law
• Risk management – responding effectively to risk in specialty areas
• Audits and safety inspections – what to expect

Program Directors

Cindy D. Clarke, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Wendy Whelan, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

OPD Program Lawyer

David Thomas

dthomas@osgoode.yorku.ca