Master of Legal Medicine

Background

The Master of legal Medicine gives legal practitioners, doctors, health professionals and administrators the legal knowledge to take the next step in their careers.

It’s available for both law and non-law graduates and the flexible structure makes it ideal for working professionals looking to immerse themselves in the study of health and medical law.

Working with lecturers who are leaders in their fields, and fellow students from Burkinafaso and around the world, you’ll gain advanced understanding of a range of legal and ethical issues relating to the field of health and medical law.

A Master of Laws (LLM) is a postgraduate degree designed to enhance your academic legal knowledge, particularly focusing on specific areas of interest. Specially designed for law and non-law graduates who want to gain a Master’s qualification in law, this course focuses on Medical Law and the ethics that are integral to their development. Ideal if you have a qualification in medicine or ambitions of working in medical liability, this course is designed to offer you the flexibility to focus your studies to suit your aspirations.

Justification

Our Medical Law MA course focuses on the legal questions raised in the context of medicine. These include debates about assisted reproduction, abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia, psychiatric ethics and mental health law, organ donation and the allocation of scarce resources. The medical and health sector has become very complex over the years. Medical research allows for new treatments every day, but with it new forms of diseases have arisen. Inevitably, the unpredictable nature of medical research has resulted in an ever more complex legal involvement. The Master of Legal Medicine combines classic legal studies within the health care sector.

Within your study, you address the liabilities of practitioners, surgeons, and the like. You deal with health legislations and reforms as well as with insurance systems. When is a doctor liable for an error during treatment? Which treatments can be legally covered by health insurances? Which medications should be legalized for chronically diseased people? The Master of Medical Law deals with topics of great importance and applicability.

The targeted group includes holders of:

Applicants must have completed a UTS recognized bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent or higher qualification, or other evidence of general and professional qualifications that demonstrates potential to pursue graduate studies.

a) May apply for the registration and enrollment graduates in Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Psychology, Social Sciences, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biology, Anthropology, Criminal Sciences and Police Sciences, or other similar degrees (classification minimum 14);

b) The Scientific Council of the Medical School may admit the registration candidates whose curriculum vitae reveals an adequate scientific preparation, even though the degree referred to in paragraph a) of paragraph 2, have ratings lower than 14.

General Objectives

This Master’s course aims advanced and specialized training of specialists able to contribute to the definition of a Burkina Faso policy in the area of Legal Medicine and other Forensic Sciences, cooperate with justice entities, conducting legal medicine examinations and forensic expertise, provide technical and laboratorial support, coordinate and supervise technical and scientific activities, taking part in the organization and management of legal medical services in Burkina Faso. 

Specific Objectives

Promote qualified multidisciplinary postgraduate training within the Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences to graduates in different fields and academic backgrounds, providing them with technical and scientific training that will allow an effective and appropriate action in the areas of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences. Encourage curiosity for scientific research in the areas studied and provide monitoring that enables, in particular, the research activity. Develop research into clinical disciplines, laboratory and other forensic application. Promote inter relationship between knowledge and contents of Forensic Medicine and other disciplines in the scope of Legal Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Duration of the Programme: This course is offered on a Two-year (Four semesters), full-time or online